lol Compliance Pressures Prod IT to Limit Use of Spreadsheets

Pointer to article:
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/businessintelligence/story/0,10801,98224,00.html?source=NLT_AM_B&nid=98224

Punchlines:
"Politically, it's devastating to take away the spreadsheets from the end user," [Mike Thoma, vice president of marketing at South San Francisco-based Actuate] said. "But on the other hand, you don't want to go to jail."
"Excel is the cocaine of finance," [Gerald Baltrusch, IT director at The Tile Shop LLC, a Plymouth, Minn.-based tile retailer] said. "Once you start using it to calculate your final numbers, you can't stop."

Apparently, input errors are criminal offenses in some jurisdictions.