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Microsoft Office gonna wreck your shit (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Access was a dirt-cheap rapid application design (RAD) tool in disguise, and very easily could have been shaped into a smooth on-ramp to ASP, ASPX, IIS, and SqlServer solutions. In short: a hypothetical "Access.NET" would have been really something.

On the other hand, now we have a super easy jumping point for anyone in a large business who can program a little to spin up a new startup. Find a business process that’s currently a spreadsheet/on paper, write a database frontend to easily handle that then sell your solution to businesses looking to remove load bearing paperwork and spreadsheets

You just described most of my career, and how a lot of contracting shops get their start. Managers need reports, and someone has to program them. I've lost count of how many times I've replaced Excel with custom software; a faster way to do this is usually welcome. That said, the cloud "Data" space is doing a lot right now to reduce this kind of task to Jupyter notebooks and some other proprietary solutions.