My anecdote.
I work with mining (resource) companies and am mining engineer myself.
I reckon one large company coming into our office and spending 2 hours describing their new software to assist with blast design.
They gave us a trial and while it was slick, it was not much better than our spreadsheet, that everyone can use and the few extra features they showed we easily implemented ourselves in the spreadsheet.
Hate to think how much money was spent developing this software that literally was a pretty GUI over a spreadsheet.
I reckon one large company coming into our office and spending 2 hours describing their new software to assist with blast design.
They gave us a trial and while it was slick, it was not much better than our spreadsheet, that everyone can use and the few extra features they showed we easily implemented ourselves in the spreadsheet.
Hate to think how much money was spent developing this software that literally was a pretty GUI over a spreadsheet.