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Funny - also COBOL was intended for the 'business' community to write their own programs. Even funnier - we've already lived through the great 'software develo
by rukuu001 4y ago
Funny - also COBOL was intended for the 'business' community to write their own programs.
Even funnier - we've already lived through the great 'software development adoption' by business and hardly noticed, except some of us got work out of it. A lot of small businesses (legal practices and accountancies were particular suspects) grabbed MS Access with both hands and went wild in the 90s/early 2000s. Timesheets and other HR functions were popular applications.
- noodlesUK 4y agoI’m quite sad there isn’t anything like access these days. I feel like I see fairly clever solutions for things being built in excel, but they can’t scale very well to multiple users. For a lot of processes something like Access would be great for bridging the gap.
- ghaff 4y agoMy oversimplified observation is that, Adobe products at the high-end notwithstanding, MS Office basically crystallized what was a mainstream office productivity suite now that companies weren't buying one-off products. Rather than buying a low-end/midrange desktop publishing program, they made it work with Word. Rather than using a low-end database (of which there were many), the made do with Excel.