Re: If your only tool is a hammer
Wrong.
Excel is powerful because Ajax allows it to reach out and access/do all manner of things.
I've created an Excel spreadsheet that would update, from a web page, the prices of my mother's 300 stocks, because her online brokerage account was so crap to understand.
How else would you do something like that? Particularly 20 years ago...
Yes, you can hire a programmer to slap together something custom - but what a waste of time and money.
Sure, it is easier to work with data these days particularly if there is an XML or similar type feed - but businesses existed before this and the Excel pages are an IT artifact just like the XP laptops fronting 15 year old Xray machines.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
