- Costs 5 or 6 figures - Has often unnecessary hardware and software requirements to reduce sticker shock. For example, requires Solaris on SPARC and the data

- Costs 5 or 6 figures - Has often unnecessary hardware and software requirements to reduce sticker shock. For example, requires Solaris on SPARC and the database must be Oracle or MS SQL Server when it's just a glorified CRUD web app. - Is buzzword-compliant (extra points for more esoteric buzzwords (like JSR-170 compliant)). - Is often written in Java to allow your typical IT drone to write the necessary glue to integrate it with other enterprise software. - Is excessively complex at all levels (UI/UX, configuration, extension). - Is poorly documented due in part to the excessive complexity and more in part to the fat support contracts the vendors rely on. - Makes your IT boss happy, because it continually uses up their yearly budget allotment, generates a lifetime of status meetings, and gives more of their subordinates something to do. - Makes you, the IT worker, miserable because you have to continually fight it in order to keep it working. - Makes you, the office worker, miserable because you have to continually fight it just to get anything done.