January 11, 2005

Thought of the day: Enterprise

Am I the only one who thinks that “enterprise” when used in con­junc­tion with soft­ware can mean any and all of the following:

Maybe I’ve been using Linux/BSD and OS X for too long, but I want cheap, simple, user-​friendly apps, that I and other devel­op­ers can string together to create pow­er­ful domain-​specific tools.

So the next time some­one asks if a piece of soft­ware is “enterprise,” ask your­self: Is that a good thing?

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Adrian – January 11, 2005 #

Your post reminded me of this:

http://​www.​dack.​com/​w​e​b​/​b​u​l​l​s​h​i​t​.html

Chris – January 12, 2005 #

Adrian,

That’s a great link!

I should write a crap-​detector-​filter. You punch in the URL of a product’s descrip­tion and it returns a CrapScore(tm) for that product.

Well, I’ve been mean­ing to play with any/all of the fol­low­ing: Cher­ryPy, mod_python and Rails, maybe that’d be a good starter project, should be simple enough.

Thanks for the idea Adrian!

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