alt Hacker NewsWhen 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'.
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Enterprise quality software is a just a DOS application, probably written for dBase III, that has been rolled forward to the present day.
"Enterprise" mainly describes the sales and support process, not the nature of the product itself. That said one does influence the other.
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?
Enterprise means it has SSO and a support contract