QOTD: enterprise software
2005-04-10 22:19:43.505145+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Trained Monkey provides us with a link to my QOTD, from Kragen Sitaker describing "enterprise software":
Enterprise software is software that gets sold to a so-called enterprise. If you know English well, you might think an “enterprise” is something brave, noble, and dangerous, like starting a small business, but in this case, “enterprise” is used to mean the opposite: it means a large, risk-averse company, whose executives use the term to flatter themselves by pretending that they’re engaged in something brave, noble, and dangerous.