http://www.architected.info/blog/on-shadows-and-spreadsheets How people, practices, and information are transformed into relationships and understanding. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:36:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 http://www.architected.info/blog/on-shadows-and-spreadsheets#comment-73 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:41:08 +0000 http://www.architected.info/blog/on-shadows-and-spreadsheets#comment-73 [...] BitWorking has an interesting post that talks about data from a document-centric point of view. He makes an eloquent defense of the peopole who build and use shadow systems when he says: “I am not attacking relational databases, they have their role to play and are very useful tools, nor am I attacking people that use databases. What I am doing is taking people to task that berate users for putting too much data into spreadsheets and not databases. We, as software developers, have let them down and not provided them with tools that work with how they’ve been trained to work with the data, the failing is on our side, not theirs.” [...] […] BitWorking has an interesting post that talks about data from a document-centric point of view. He makes an eloquent defense of the peopole who build and use shadow systems when he says: “I am not attacking relational databases, they have their role to play and are very useful tools, nor am I attacking people that use databases. What I am doing is taking people to task that berate users for putting too much data into spreadsheets and not databases. We, as software developers, have let them down and not provided them with tools that work with how they’ve been trained to work with the data, the failing is on our side, not theirs.” […]

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