An environment that combines the most intractable features of the La Brea tar pits and an industrial-scale cash furnace, with attendant performance and maintena

An environment that combines the most intractable features of the La Brea tar pits and an industrial-scale cash furnace, with attendant performance and maintenance issues, dependencies on custom kudzu code, and all of which is in aggregate entirely critical to on-going business operations. If you can afford to rip it all out and replace it - without seriously risking blowing up your business, your entire revenue stream, or risking having to issue a mea culpa to a legal entity, or having to jack-hammer congealed product out of your mongo-million dollar manufacturing line - then it's not Enterprise code. And yes, stuff that might not be traditionally thought of as an enterprise installation can fit this definition. The large-scale deployments of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange and SitePoint can fit this definition, as can your own large-scale deployment of your own customized software platform, as can anything to do with financial verifications or controlled substances, too.