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Re:Why do people still use VBA? by FuriouslyAdrift on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:20AM (#38276336)
The "bureaucracy of IT" is driven by legal, compliance, and security reasons. The reason why small companies are "nimble" is they are flying by the seat of their pants and one investigation/ransomware/insider threat away from ruin.

Not saying that isn't normal (been there, done that... thanks FINRA), but that's the reason.

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Re:Why do people still use VBA? by jimbokun on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:55AM (#38277230)
Yep.

The core data should sit behind some kind of service that enforces legal, compliance, and security policies.

Then tools that access the data in a compliant way should be given a lot of flexibility for what tech stacks they use to process the data.

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