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Surprised by the answers given here. If I hear 'enterprise', I'm thinking SAP, IBM, Oracle. SAS etc., not some dev environments or niche tools.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago
Yep, RHEL would be an example of open source enterprise software.
- PeterStuer 6y ago
  Technically yes, but I would tend to think more towards applications such as ERP, CRM, SRM, Accounting etc. rather than infrastructure or middleware level software.
- fizixer 6y ago
  Borderline. The 'E' in RHEL doesn't imply RHEL itself is an enterprise s/w, more that it's an OS best suited for 'running enterprise s/w on'.
mcpherrinm 6y ago
I'm not surprised that there's not a ton of SAP lovers here, though.
- moooo99 6y ago
  I haven't met a single person in any IT area who usually works with non-SAP products who likes SAP. Even a lot of the people in the SAP departments dislike SAP. The only people are I've met that all love SAP are SAP employees living in my area, which isn't too surprising I guess.
  - blaser-waffle 6y ago
    +1. Wish I could make it +10. SAP is such a pain. Our org got married to it years ago and there aren't budgets big enough to undo it. At least it's stable enough. Oracle is another ballgame -- they're just terrible.
    - ta17711771 6y ago
      Can I get in touch with you to discuss this a little further? Pointedly: If there were organizations that reproduced their modules independently, and integrated into them well enough to "stay on one system" at the finance level until they're able to slowly pick away at replacing each one and data collections into a main db in a sane, nonconvoluted or expensive way? (Unlike SAP)
fizixer 6y ago
Same. Someone asks about 'enterprise s/w' and everyone starts spouting their favorite 'commercial s/w' and apparently everyone seems to get along with it. Is HN overrun by coding noobs who are pathologically handicapped in the size of their vocabulary? How the eff is 'IntelliJ' an enterprise s/w?
mellosouls 6y ago
"Best" was an important keyword. The suppliers you mention are not always renowned for the user-friendliness of their tools, which - leaving aside any other flaws - is an important part of quality assessment.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago

Yep, RHEL would be an example of open source enterprise software.

PeterStuer 6y ago
Technically yes, but I would tend to think more towards applications such as ERP, CRM, SRM, Accounting etc. rather than infrastructure or middleware level software.
fizixer 6y ago
Borderline. The 'E' in RHEL doesn't imply RHEL itself is an enterprise s/w, more that it's an OS best suited for 'running enterprise s/w on'.

mcpherrinm 6y ago

I'm not surprised that there's not a ton of SAP lovers here, though.

moooo99 6y ago
I haven't met a single person in any IT area who usually works with non-SAP products who likes SAP. Even a lot of the people in the SAP departments dislike SAP. The only people are I've met that all love SAP are SAP employees living in my area, which isn't too surprising I guess.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  +1. Wish I could make it +10. SAP is such a pain. Our org got married to it years ago and there aren't budgets big enough to undo it. At least it's stable enough. Oracle is another ballgame -- they're just terrible.
  - ta17711771 6y ago
    Can I get in touch with you to discuss this a little further? Pointedly: If there were organizations that reproduced their modules independently, and integrated into them well enough to "stay on one system" at the finance level until they're able to slowly pick away at replacing each one and data collections into a main db in a sane, nonconvoluted or expensive way? (Unlike SAP)

fizixer 6y ago

Same. Someone asks about 'enterprise s/w' and everyone starts spouting their favorite 'commercial s/w' and apparently everyone seems to get along with it. Is HN overrun by coding noobs who are pathologically handicapped in the size of their vocabulary? How the eff is 'IntelliJ' an enterprise s/w?

mellosouls 6y ago

"Best" was an important keyword. The suppliers you mention are not always renowned for the user-friendliness of their tools, which - leaving aside any other flaws - is an important part of quality assessment.