Yeah, whatever. The only thing worse than Excel is the typical corporate-developed big Java application produced by a bloated team of mediocre programmers grown to further some middle manager's empire-building desire rather than to produce quality software. I'm not surprised that people doing organizationally key work give up on interfacing with little wannabe-CIOs counting subordinates and just get the work done with a spreadsheet.

Not to mention Excel often ends up having better performance than most home-grown solutions, especially now its core functions are properly multithreaded.