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

[Zahid Malik]

>
> 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;-)

Cheers

Zahid


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