Re:The rise and fall of Limux
by INTPenis on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:35PM
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I've observed the same but regarding fancy Office documents my experience has mostly been with amazingly complex Excel spreadsheets.
People who have no programming background, no knowledge of modern tools like jupyter somehow are very proficient at crunching data and making graphs in Excel.
I've seen some outlandish things like all invoices being generated by Excel templates and data gathering done by vbs. Or an entire datacenter mapped up in Excel, like a poor mans racktables.
Granted the vbs was done by a programmer but that's a tiny slice of what I've seen done in Excel.
So if you're going to force these people that I work with into google docs then you need to offer an alternative they can understand. Either a devops department that can script these things for them easily, or training in new tools.
People who have no programming background, no knowledge of modern tools like jupyter somehow are very proficient at crunching data and making graphs in Excel.
I've seen some outlandish things like all invoices being generated by Excel templates and data gathering done by vbs. Or an entire datacenter mapped up in Excel, like a poor mans racktables.
Granted the vbs was done by a programmer but that's a tiny slice of what I've seen done in Excel.
So if you're going to force these people that I work with into google docs then you need to offer an alternative they can understand. Either a devops department that can script these things for them easily, or training in new tools.