Beyond the fact that I worked with "enterprise-grade"-Software that wasted much more than an hour on columns... Let me make a daring statement: in some regards,

Beyond the fact that I worked with "enterprise-grade"-Software that wasted much more than an hour on columns... Let me make a daring statement: in some regards, (La)TeX is the most "enterprise-ready" document writing solution out there. The community is extremely committed to backwards compatibility - if you had something working in LaTeX, there is a high probability it wont break for the next 10 years (my files from 2000 still compile properly). It is reasonably fast for PDF generation, which makes it good for batch use (also, it still knows what "batch use" is, being from the 70s and all), making it a good solution to generate things like invoices. Newer Tex compilers like XeTeX and LuaTeX also eliminated most of the biggest wrinkles (most glaringly the inability to use any modern Font format like OpenType). Also, for interested programmers, it comes with a huge toolchain to manipulate and stitch together PDF, which I often use. The problem is the bar of entry: LaTeX is a _typesetting_ system, which means that all terminology comes from typesetting, not from programming, a fact that many programmers hate.