Comment by fuzzfactor

Interesting, a few organizations can (very) carefully craft their own LOB software over the number of years it can take to fully free themselves from Excel. And then realize the intended advantage for years to come.

At the same time over a period of years the web approach is to make the whole thing more like a bunch of interlocked Excels, more so than it already was before.

Does that mean any resulting disadvantage during following years is intentional? Any more than huge orgs grew to depend on Excel, one physical desktop at a time since that was the only thing in common among all those diverse desk owners that would do the job, plus it was the first thing to come along to fill that niche.