On 7-10-2018 01:18, Warren Young wrote: > 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.
Yes, there is! > > 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. The 'software development department' should forbid 'software developmentprojects' which iare not done by them. > > 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.) "turning Excel prototypes into..." is a NO-GO. It simply means that IT staff did not do its own work 'the correct way'!. > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > At the office where i work we have an Excel sheet which takes >10 minutes to load, and i do not beleive its because of the absolute size of the excel sheet.... This Excel sheet contains (or tries to contain) )functionality which should have been implemented a long time ago in our ERP-application. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
