[NGO] Re: Organisation Diagrams (organograms) on Intranets

[Reinout van Rees]

Zahid Malik wrote:
>>
>> Heh. At least Access is one step from the spreadsheets that they used to
>> use.
>>
>> I used to work in a big telco in Australia doing research and
>> development. At one stage, some managers (not in our area!) built a
>> large and complex workflow system for some very expensive IT service
>> provisioning using just Excel spreadsheets. Now surely that's a
>> database :-)  (of course, we were called in later to try to clean up the
>> mess)
> 
> I am amazed by the number of jobs that we take on where we have to
> create a proper web-app from some home-grown MS Access hideousness.
> This is in large government & private companies. We use Postgresql
> (hopefully not even a warning;-)

At least you then have a more-or-less working example to work from. Way
better then just 40 lines of scarce documentation "make this". :-)

Reinout

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