Yeah, the flexibility is huge. I actually think the cycle of guys in the trenches building an excel workflow, then having developers come in later and create a "real" db backed app as a replacement is not terrible.
It's similar to an anecdote I read from Larry Wall. At some brand new university, they did not make any paths through the quads. Instead they just waited a year, and paved over the dirt paths that had naturally formed.
It's similar to an anecdote I read from Larry Wall. At some brand new university, they did not make any paths through the quads. Instead they just waited a year, and paved over the dirt paths that had naturally formed.