Having worked in an enterprise environment in the last several years (and trying hard not to get sucked into the process), it sure seems to me that a lot of the

Having worked in an enterprise environment in the last several years (and trying hard not to get sucked into the process), it sure seems to me that a lot of the problems with enterprise software are self inflicted wounds. In fact I think if their (our) IT groups actually solved the real problems themselves (the ones their business users cared about) rather than building framework on top of framework with bloated middlewear based on a dozen standardized acronyms, enterprise applications would be much leaner and cheaper. I think there's a lot of reinvented wheels and overdesigned architecures in enterprise application build circles. Their users don't care about that.