I’ve been a consultant to fortune 100 companies throughout my career and the amount of pain they willingly endure supporting Excel, Access, and .NET/Java applications is astounding. The desire to eliminate these things is high, but there’s no political will over cost and appeasing departmental management.
I think GenAI opens Pandora’s box and all of these decisions change.
Yeah, and we'll see them fail trying to roll their own excel. It's such a stupid economic decision to even think of that ... I can't even. So I heavily disagree, still. Software doens't need to be perfect, it needs to be good enough and the economics need to work.
I think GenAI opens Pandora’s box and all of these decisions change.