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Sorry, David Michael Ross (apparently you love your name enough to show it using big fonts on your site so I put in in full here), {iOS,Android,Linux,Java,Oracl
by martinced 14y ago
Sorry, David Michael Ross (apparently you love your name enough to show it using big fonts on your site so I put in in full here), {iOS,Android,Linux,Java,OracleDB,...} is Everywhere.
What is TFA's point by using such a linkbait title? My home router (a "gift" from my ISP in exchange of a subscription) is running Linux. My Internet TV decoder is running Linux + Java. My phone runs iOS and my girlfriend's phone runs iOS. We have two Mac computers here (and a Linux one but that isn't common).
You can hardly make an electronic money payment without having Java involved in the process at some point (including to generate COBOL on the fly!).
Hundreds of millions of people (really ?) are using spreadsheets? So what: there are hundreds of millions of people carrying Java smartcard in their pockets daily. There are hundreds of millions of people using cellphones. There are billions of people using a browser daily.
What is the point about spreadsheet? We get it: people need to fill taxes, compute "stuff", etc.
We also understand that the corporate world (representing less than 50% of a country's GDP but being very "big-mouthed") uses Excel.
Just like the corporate world is totally and utterly dominated by solutions like SAP and its army of consultant writing ABAP and Java code to interface with SAP.
Is Microsoft is still dictating the rules of the entire IT game because Excel is a spreadsheet software?
Is that why such linkbaits are posted? Because we like to know that it's possible that companies like Apple and Google (two places where you're probably not seeing a lot of "Excel" compared to the other stuff you'll see the people there working with) can come tomorrow and change the world?
But, no, we should all be in admiration because spreadsheets are used in the "real corporate world" (and because of course we should bow in front of the corporate world, because the only business is in corporate right!?) and because Excel has a huge market share amongst the various spreadsheets software (I do certainly see Google Docs making inroads that said).
Seriously: what's the point!?
What's next!?: "Sorry, nerds, Microsoft Word is everywhere"
Or "Sorry, hackers, Internet Explorer is everywhere"
Or "Sorry, crackes, Microsoft Windows is still present on hundreds of millions of PCs".
Really? What is the point?
That we should have give up programming because every single programming need out there can be filled by a corporate user knowing how to enter an IF/ELSE in a spreadsheet!?
I'm seriously confused by these articles and the fact that people do still upvote the blatant linkbait.