Some people like to complain about how companies end up depending on home-brewed Access and Excel applications. The IT guys didn't have the time/resources to do

Some people like to complain about how companies end up depending on home-brewed Access and Excel applications. The IT guys didn't have the time/resources to do "a proper job" so the business workers just learned stuff on their own and wrote their own apps. My suspicion is that Sharepoint and Infopath will be the next generation of home-brewed company apps. Companies already have them, so they don't need to be buying X, Y or Z to start writing apps to keep their company going.