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Subject:Re: Enterprise: a definition? From:"Gary S. Callison" <huey -at- interaccess -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:45:57 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, peninsula -at- covad -dot- net (DaveC) wrote:
> One of the terms I'm coming across with increased frequency is
> "enterprise". I've always considered this a marketing term which has
> little or no value in the world of service, but apparently is valued
> legal tender in the world of marketing and sales.
> What does it mean? To the best of my knowledge, it is synonymous with
> "corporate environment".
Only in the most general sense. See <http://www.capterra.com/softdef>
for support of this definition. In the context of IT, it has a more
specific meaning - enterprise software or an enterprise solution is
something that applies to the entire organization, the whole enterprise.
> For example, "File-serving is a technology that is designed largely
> for the enterprise market,
No, file-serving is a technology designed largely for the workgroup
market. On your office LAN, you have a fileserver. By way of comparison,
management of those fileservers may be through an enterprise application,
possibly using NDS or AD. User profiles may be maintained at an
enterprise level using LDAP. The mailserver may also be an enterprise
solution, located at the corporate office in Akron or Teaneck or
Waukataukwa. It doesn't just mean 'corporate', it means 'for most or all
of the corporation'. An enterprise rollout of a Windows upgrade is a scary
thing. An enterprise audit of Windows licenses, more so.
> Anyone want to lend a hand? Extra credit given for examples.
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