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When I worked on Wall Street about 10 years ago, somebody tried to used it to make a daily report and got slapped by the IT dept. for using "unsupportable" software. There weren't as many freshly minted PhDs floating around then. Maybe the attitude would be different. The report looked great.

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Early on at Amazon, the forms you got with your order was generated with TeX ( LaTeX? )

It was probably installed by ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_%28programmer%29 ), but he was gone by that point.

The system was running on a couple of the Sparcstations and at that time (97) the zon was switching to Alpha.

I remember looking at that the build system and thought that it was "unsupportable" by myself or any other systems admin there at that time.

Recently, I've wrote some docs in LaTeX and was told to convert it to Word/Confluence.

The prop desk I worked for a few years ago built a TeX-based report generator. The graphs were created with gnuplot. It all worked very well.

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