Re: "Has Excel succeeded?..." at charting?
"People who let their Excel spreadsheets get too big instead of moving to a database system should be taken out, put against the wall and shot."
Even with lots of simple, raw, flat-form (uncomplicated X vs Y) data where a database at this point is overkill? If people are using Excel as a flat-form database, it's because you're looking at using a hammer to crack an egg open: modern database tools are too much and perhaps too demanding.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
