> That's why people still use Excel instead of whatever database solution their IT department bought/prepared - because it doesn't limit them to particular poor

> That's why people still use Excel instead of whatever database solution their IT department bought/prepared - because it doesn't limit them to particular poorly understood interpretation of their workflow that was outdated last week I'd like to dispute that claim. Specialised apps have eaten a large market share of what were once was Excel sheets. Same thing with Craigslist: about all of its individual categories have been "disrupted" by startups. WordPress replaced a large chunk of what once were hand crafted HTML websites or homemade CMS. Heroku ate a large chunk of the dedicated/VPS/shared hosting market. Of course people we will always need generic apps and languages as long as they haven't found the specific solution to their problem.