"Enterprise" is a hard term for me to use productively in software context, because it feels so synonymous with bad software. Lots of fine pieces of software a

"Enterprise" is a hard term for me to use productively in software context, because it feels so synonymous with bad software. Lots of fine pieces of software are used in small and big companies that do only one thing and do it well. As for in house line-of-business apps, it's an elusive species because if it does what it needs to cost effectively and is not a marketing case for a fat software company like Oracle nobody often gets told about it. But I've seen and heard of LOB apps built thereupon that don't suffer from those bullet points, except for 5.