On Oct 6, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > > > Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve a > simple problem, then add a feature, then add another feature, and keep going > until they have some crawling creeping horror that needs to return to R'lyeh. > There is never any point in this process when a manager looks at what's > being done with Excel and says "Okay we need to hire a programmer to turn > this into a proper App.”.
Up to a certain point, there’s nothing wrong with that process. One of the tasks smart management should be doing is keeping an eye on these guerrilla software development projects and step in when it becomes clear they’ve got a valuable business tool that needs to be rewritten on a stronger foundation to allow its continued growth and increasing value to the business. If your business is big enough to have an IT staff with at least one professional programmer, turning Excel prototypes into professional business tools is mainly a matter of scheduling. (Again, a function of management.) The main need for a personal database is in organizations too small to have full-time programming staff. (That includes most home use as well.) Maybe that’s the biggest reason this sort of software is rare and expensive: big business doesn’t need it, so it only gets funded by small businesses and home users, who are notoriously tight when it comes to software licensing. Contrast the elements of a traditional office software suite, which are needed clear through the Fortune uint8_t. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
