WashedOver@lemmy.ca to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 11 months agoit always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...lemmy.caimagemessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up1807arrow-down110
arrow-up1797arrow-down1imageit always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...lemmy.caWashedOver@lemmy.ca to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-squarejelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down3·11 months agoITT, very salty IT guys… I’d rather folks use Excel then some home made stuff. That’s the real nightmare fuel. VB, not .net, just VB, from 1995. You’ll beg to have bad Excel after you deal with that stuff. 😵😱😭
minus-squarer00ty@kbin.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up18·11 months agoThe scripting in Excel is VBA, which is VB6. So, basically what I’m saying is that you can have both!
minus-squaredroans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·11 months agoMy old company had a revenue system built in-house that only could run on MS-DOS. We needed a VM just to use it. I left that company in 2019 and they were still using it.
minus-squarestockRot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoThe software my company makes still uses VB5 for the front end 🙃
ITT, very salty IT guys… I’d rather folks use Excel then some home made stuff. That’s the real nightmare fuel. VB, not .net, just VB, from 1995. You’ll beg to have bad Excel after you deal with that stuff. 😵😱😭
The scripting in Excel is VBA, which is VB6. So, basically what I’m saying is that you can have both!
In .xls … no thanks
My old company had a revenue system built in-house that only could run on MS-DOS. We needed a VM just to use it.
I left that company in 2019 and they were still using it.
The software my company makes still uses VB5 for the front end 🙃
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