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When I was first getting into software dev, I thought 'enterprise' meant 'industrial grade', 'powerful', 'high-performing'. Then I actually met some enterprise
by taneq 20d ago
When I was first getting into software dev, I thought 'enterprise' meant 'industrial grade', 'powerful', 'high-performing'.
Then I actually met some enterprise software, and realised that it means 'expensive', 'bespoke', 'one-off', and usually 'janky'.
- phoghed 20d agoEnterprise means it has SSO and a support contract
- esseph 20d agoLol, so true
- jacquesm 20d agoIt means you are paying for a support contract. Whether you actually have one time will tell.
- PeterStuer 20d agoOnly seasoned engineers will understand you are not joking.
- phoghed 19d agoSorry, the very simple thing you’re trying to do is too complex and non-standard for our support team to handle. We’ll gladly sell you a consultant for $400/hr. He’ll work on modifying our system, and then we’ll sell those modifications to everyone else.
- valenterry 20d agoAnd in-transparent pricing and this annoying dude that asks you once in a while if everything is okay, usually before the renewal.
- bigbuppo 20d agoEnterprise quality software is a just a DOS application, probably written for dBase III, that has been rolled forward to the present day.
- elcritch 20d agoThose old school systems are often much more stable than any newer systems. Autozone looks to use something like that and I’ve never seen them have issues as a customer.
- bigbuppo 14d agoIn recent history I've done some work on Pick/Multivalue systems first deployed in the 1980s that have been rolled forward today and I love every minute of it. Dick Pick had some opinions and most of them were pretty good.
- Nursie 20d agoTo me it always meant needlessly complex and overspecced for what's needed. I think probably due to Java's enterprise years. Why solve the problem directly when you can abstract everything away into FactoryFactoryImplementationInterfaceFactorys, and have something that is both a memory-hog and completely unassailable to any normal programmer seeking to understand it or make changes?
- dboreham 20d ago"Enterprise" mainly describes the sales and support process, not the nature of the product itself. That said one does influence the other.