Young people are doing a lot of stuff that could one day be considered "enterprise" software; it's just that the suits that buy these things don't trust them ye

Young people are doing a lot of stuff that could one day be considered "enterprise" software; it's just that the suits that buy these things don't trust them yet. PG mentions this in his essay on colleges (http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html): "There used to be a saying in the corporate world: 'No one ever got fired for buying IBM.' You no longer hear this about IBM specifically, but the idea is very much alive; there is a whole category of 'enterprise' software companies that exist to take advantage of it. People buying technology for large organizations don't care if they pay a fortune for mediocre software. It's not their money. They just want to buy from a supplier who seems safe--a company with an established name, confident salesmen, impressive offices, and software that conforms to all the current fashions. Not necessarily a company that will deliver so much as one that, if they do let you down, will still seem to have been a prudent choice. So companies have evolved to fill that niche." Companies used to buy mainframes, because they saw simpler machines as toy computers. Even today, big companies might write a web app in Java when they could write it much more easily in Python, because they see Python et al. as toy languages. Similarly, there are a lot of apps out there, and there will soon be many more, that the market will one day force companies to stop labeling as toys.