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Re:Ask HN: Does anything beat the uptime of emails and Excel? by osullivj on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:13AM (#25080542)
And the converse. IT depts at banks want to exterminate Excel solutions as they're perceived as unsupportable. But on trading floors traders are the boss, so Excel will never be decommed.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anything beat the uptime of emails and Excel? by decafninja on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:50AM (#25082074)
Yup, this too. Although another factor that supports decommissioning Excel based hacky solutions is regulatory stuff.
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