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Time for our monthly blast from the past. Below is a five year old article which I believe is timeless, especially in times of Siebel Open UI (scripting). Please enjoy... (Note: Links have been slightly updated) *** This is a follow-up post (and the first in a semi-series) on the scriptless Siebel challenge . Question : Why is so much script code written in Siebel projects? Possible answers (not a complete list, add your own...): Developers are used to write code (we have been coding since Siebel 99, haven't we?). Workflow, Business Rules, etc are nice but they are difficult to learn/manage and we don't have time to evaluate solutions. Architects and developers don't know that alternatives exist. As we all agree, the best time to avoid writing custom code in standard enterprise applications is design time. So it's the responsibility of the business analyst or technical architect to design a code-free solution for a given requirement. Back in the Siebel days (and also t...