I generally agree with you, but you picked sort of an exceptional example. As far as I know, Finance/Accounting is one of the explicitly defined use cases for E

I generally agree with you, but you picked sort of an exceptional example. As far as I know, Finance/Accounting is one of the explicitly defined use cases for Excel. For finance people, it's actually the best-in-breed tool for what they're doing. GP is talking about people outside Finance who use Excel as a database. Though he's being a bit facetious, he's actually not far off. For the store data/retrieve data/share data workflows that most of these folks have, there actually is a good SaaS business in putting Excel on a server, wrapping it with a database, putting a nice UI on it and adding a few industry specific features.