Actually I build enterprise software and am a enterprise architect at a large company :) Please don't tar us all with the same brush.
It's not all like that. You've been stung by a shitty purchasing and architecture team, probably put together from people who've ascended the ranks to the point they no longer understand the technology and want to suck up to management and wheel around the country in a company rollerskate with a ThinkPad and a caffiene problem. These are called ivory tower architects or as we call them: asshat-itects.
Enterprise should mean certain guarantees about scalability and reliability and ability to adapt to the organisation.
If it doesn't, you've bought a lemon, not a piece of enterprise software.
Note: there are more lemons than not so you have to be careful.
It's not all like that. You've been stung by a shitty purchasing and architecture team, probably put together from people who've ascended the ranks to the point they no longer understand the technology and want to suck up to management and wheel around the country in a company rollerskate with a ThinkPad and a caffiene problem. These are called ivory tower architects or as we call them: asshat-itects.
Enterprise should mean certain guarantees about scalability and reliability and ability to adapt to the organisation.
If it doesn't, you've bought a lemon, not a piece of enterprise software.
Note: there are more lemons than not so you have to be careful.