Comment by taneq
9 hours 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'.
Enterprise means it has SSO and a support contract
It means you are paying for a support contract. Whether you actually have one time will tell.
Only seasoned engineers will understand you are not joking.
Lol, so true
"Enterprise" mainly describes the sales and support process, not the nature of the product itself. That said one does influence the other.
Enterprise quality software is a just a DOS application, probably written for dBase III, that has been rolled forward to the present day.
Those 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.
To 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?