Python in the enterprise: Pros and cons

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Thu Jul 11 12:37:33 EDT 2002


Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:47:22 -0400
> Tim Peters wrote:
[the enterprise]
>> It's an especially annoying American buzzword for "business use, as opposed
>> to consumer, research, or educational use".  Your enterprise-ready software
>> is primed to take on the challenge of synergizing mission-critical business
>> logic in empowering ways.  IOW, it computes the sales tax right more often
>> than not <wink>.
>> 

> I always took "enterprise" to mean "runs on an AS/400 with a text interface",
> or possibly as a synonym for "token-ring".

I thought it involved that starship with the federation and the vulcans and 
such. Their computer system gets taken over by alien entities quite
frequently, so I imagine they run software for the Enterprise.

Deflect-the-warp-tetrion-plasma-field-dimensional-flux-ly yours,

Martijn
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