RE: Enterprise: a definition?

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: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:42:58 -0600 (CST)



On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Bulloch, Scott wrote:
> Huey wrote:
>> "SAP" is an acronym meaning "run away".
> Remember, members of this list come from all different companies or
> areas of the world. PLEASE... let's keep the discussion to matters
> relating to technical writing, and AVOID insulting the companies that
> others work for.

My apologies. It was intended as a joke.

Other fora on the internet have chosen to pre-emptively defuse various
software holy wars (like say, 'Frame vs. Word') by adopting the
philosophy "All hardware sucks, all software sucks". And this is true to
the extent that no UI is perfect, every system has rough edges, and after
working with something long enough, those edges can get really annoying.
This occasionally causes some really stellar rants, one or two of which
I've managed to produce.

In my experience working with enterprise software (which does not include
SAP) the fact that the userbase is so broad and all-encompassing means
that for any small group of users, it's going to have a lot of failings,
an overabundance of things that don't apply to them, and yet people half a
continent and an ocean away will still be able to cause problems on your
end because everything is connected. Software can't be all things to all
people. So enterprise solutions get whipped on, perhaps more than any
other general class of sofware except Microsoft, and possibly djb-ware
and some other Holy Wars like 'vi vs emacs', 'KDE vs Gnome', 'Sendmail
vs. Exim' (this one is going good right now), and other similar silliness.

Right now, the software I hate the most is what I'm documenting right now.
Of course, it's not finished yet, so the bugs I run into are valuable
pointers for the programmers and not put there SPECIFICALLY TO MAKE MY
LIFE A NEVER-ENDING PIT OF DESPAIR THAT- ...sorry. Was I ranting again?

So "my software sucks worse than yours, neener neener", which is an
entirely different sort of arguement.

--
Huey


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