[neotrinity]

having worked for Investment Banking clients I can see what the author intended to address.

I have seen a lot of abuse/ over use of excel/VBA

I once had to write CRUD front-end with Excel/VBA activeX components retrieving data from Sybase / SQL Server databases.

Which could have been easily engineered as a simple web-app. "But NO .. IT HAD TO BE A FUCKING SPREADSHEET"

[collyw]

Welcome to my world. We are using excel for everything here, because basically it means the user doesn't have to think. That means there are countless errors, and I get to be a data entry clerk rather than a software developer.