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It costs more

• zxienin 6y ago
  in return for..?
  • PaulHoule 6y ago
    Longer support. Better support. Management tools. Better reliability. Higher memory bandwidth (but maybe higher latency) Also sometimes then scale is just different. For instance there are 18TB helium filled enterprise hard drives you could put in a desktop computer. The average person might fill a 2TB drive, but you have to be an accomplished downloader to fill an 18TB drive.
    • zxienin 6y ago
      What would be tangible difference in building & architecting software? Longer/better support, management tools are day 2 concerns. Better reliability - I've seen more reliability in google mail, than one of my travel expense business application that is sold as enterprise grade.
      • wmf 6y ago
        In terms of reliability, "enterprise-grade" tends to mean "applied high-availability best practices from the 1990s" and those practices aren't nearly as effective as people thought they were. Basically none of that stuff was tested to destruction Jepsen-style and we now know that it won't survive. As long as everybody was following the same practices you could pretend that it's not possible to do better, but later Google and others showed that it is in fact possible to achieve much higher availability using different practices.
  • brudgers 6y ago
    Economic viability for the vendor. If a vendor has ten customers and ten engineers then each customer needs to be paying: (one engineer's salary + overhead) * profit each year. Every rational economic actor knows that whether they are selling or buying.
    • zxienin 6y ago
      I doubt that can be used as differentiating factor of enterprise-grade..