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Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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For me, I have to say it, it's MS Outlook. I do e-mail all day every day and I use VBA macros and all sorts of shortcuts to make it very useful. Love it.

That is the first time I hear someone praise Outlook. For an application that gets billions in billing, there are no valid excuses for it to be the same thing as it was 15 years ago.

I think there's a solid argument that getting billions in billing while being stagnant is self evidently a valid excuse to be stagnant.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that before but I'm skeptic about if it's exactly the same.

The only one that is different is Rider, since it has much deeper C# integration (might be others such as DataGrip, but never used it). PyCharm and GoLand are just plugins (same as WebStorm, PhpStorm, etc)

I believe CLion is also different than just IntelliJ + Plugin. At least I've not been able to find a C plugin that mimics it.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Datadog - the amount of observability we have in our infrastructure is insane. I can find out what’s wrong within a few seconds.

The tool indeed does a very good job from developer's point of view but when we see the end to end aspects of Datadog then the feeling changes. Previously when I was working as a DevOps Engineer, I remember how much our Head of Infrastructure was pissed with the shady licensing and pricing model of Datadog. Missing of detailed itemized billing, lack of proper access control (allowing who team can use which feature, can publish what metrics, etc.) makes the tool a pain in the long run. We even started to look for affordable alternatives to it.

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I don't know if it counts as enterprise software but I use Jetbrains' products everyday. Goland, IntelliJ and PyCharm are great tools.

Why use 3 different ones when IntelliJ can do all of the features of the listed editors? PyCharm is IntelliJ locked with Python plugin, etc.

There are slight differences, I believe. IntelliJ is also a little more cumbersome, since you have to map the modules to specific languages. I do mostly just use IntelliJ with plugins these days though.

I always feel a bit silly, because I pay for their "all products" pack, but only really use IntelliJ, because I bought it before realizing the plugins really were 99% the same as the specialized IDEs in most cases (CLion isn't, I think). At this point it's cheaper to just pay the ongoing renewal fee, I think.

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- TortoiseSVN/TortoiseGit make everything a snap when it comes to repository work. I can’t recommend these enough.

- Agent Ransack is a GUI for findstr. Much nicer to use than the one in Notepad++.

- VS 2019 is incredible. I weep for the parallel universe where we’re all stuck using Eclipse for everything.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Beyond Compare.

I find this tool very very useful when you have lots of integration job. If you have an enterprise version, then you can do stuff like compare and merge files across two servers, compare PDFs, ZIPs, JAR, and obviously plain text files. This is a tool for which I definitely ask for an Enterprise Version license whenever I join a new organization.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Datadog - the amount of observability we have in our infrastructure is insane. I can find out what’s wrong within a few seconds.

Datadog is nice as a user. It's pretty terrible as a person who cares about the budget.

Their pricing is pretty ridiculous at times and their sales people are often way over aggressive. You have to pay extra for containers on a host. They also make it impossible to keep users from consuming additional paid features.

I like having Datadog when I need to debug, but I'm pretty sick of the dark patterns and surprise bills. I'll probably go with Prometheus in my next greenfield.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that before but I'm skeptic about if it's exactly the same.

The only one that is different is Rider, since it has much deeper C# integration (might be others such as DataGrip, but never used it). PyCharm and GoLand are just plugins (same as WebStorm, PhpStorm, etc)

technically resharper is way diferent as well but whether you'd call it a ide is "questionable"
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