To me, a wide variety of applications can be considered Enterprise applications. At the low end, it could involve a web application which is clustered, fault-tolerant, and uses many servers to provide services. At the high-end, it would be something to the effect of it being a small piece of an Enterprise Architecture, which contains many large disparate systems which work with each other, such as the various applications used in a bank.

Likewise I’m not being snarky, but Wikipedia has a decent but curt definition of what an Enterprise Application is as well.

And hey, thanks for reading. I assume you’re a Django developer for the Times? I’ve been playing with it quite a bit over the past few months and love it.

I don’t mean to sound snarky, I’m just genuinely confused as to what people mean when they say “enterprise”.

Looks like he’s been using Ruby as his light/fun language for quite awhile:

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/RubyPeople.html

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EnterpriseRails.html

there’s no doubt that RoR can do some great stuff but it’s really for new sites, not legacy systems. the last job had a db schema that would have meant throwing Rails away and reverting to coding Ruby by hand… if you could get the driver for it (you can’t: informix).

People always forget about maintainance and the years to follow.

sure it works… down hill with a tailwind!