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Simply: Excel. The sheer intertia in businesses of all sizes using Excel will probably never completely go away. It will fade out over decades. And proper e
by jamiek88 7y ago
Simply: Excel.
The sheer intertia in businesses of all sizes using Excel will probably never completely go away. It will fade out over decades.
And proper excel (excel 2007!!!) is not on Mac OS , Linux or in the cloud.
- Silhouette 7y agoThe significance of Excel in large corporate environments is definitely underestimated by a lot of people who evangelise other platforms and software like LibreOffice as viable alternatives. On the other hand, IME this is more of an enterprise-scale thing. Smaller businesses tend to be less firmly tied to existing software packages, and do less heavily customised work with Excel specifically, so there's likely to be less of a barrier for them to migrate.
- checkdigit15 7y agoExcel and COBOL will both still be around in 50 years. The entire global financial system depends on them, and will probably continue to do so at least until the Cyborg Uprising.