A lot of enterprise software isn't even sold to the people who will actually end up using it (users OR admins). It's some VP talking to another VP agreeing on terms/pricing for "good enough/checklist" and "implementation" costs so it will look good on their yearly review.
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
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#52I think this gets it wrong. The real reason enterprise software sucks is that enterprises have complex and unique workflows and would prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business with tens of thousands of staff who will need retraining. If you look at all of the most successful software of all time they are the complete antithesis of the Unix…
People love excel and Photoshop. I’ve never met any heavy excel user that prefers any other spreadsheet software or even has anything negative to say about it.
i used to be a heavy excel user, when i worked on windows, it was great for eyeballing data quickly, now, in a different job, i use a mac, i would really do anything i can to avoid using excel - visidata FTW http://visidata.org/ . I really don't miss excel at all
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
People love excel and Photoshop. I’ve never met any heavy excel user that prefers any other spreadsheet software or even has anything negative to say about it.
Yeah me too, I find MS Word very useful too tbh. Not sure why higher level comment thinks people hate them.
Try to use the French version of Excel, and you'll understand. They renamed function names. Everyting. Not a single word makes sense anymore.
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#56Why Twitter sucks
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#57I think this gets it wrong. The real reason enterprise software sucks is that enterprises have complex and unique workflows and would prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business with tens of thousands of staff who will need retraining. If you look at all of the most successful software of all time they are the complete antithesis of the Unix…
People love excel and Photoshop. I’ve never met any heavy excel user that prefers any other spreadsheet software or even has anything negative to say about it.
Regarding Excel, its Mac version is terrible. Our heavy users have to run the Windows version in a dedicated Parallels VM to get anything done once the sheet contains more than a few hundred rows.
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#58My slightly geekier explanation for Why Enterprise Software Sucks is to simply link to this facetious GH repo: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
TestConstants._1_2_FIZZ_4_BUZZ_FIZZ_7_8_FIZZ_BUZZ_11_FIZZ_13_14_FIZZ_BUZZ
I have to say that I've seen real code that had constants with a suspiciously similar naming convention, which I guess is the genius of that repo :-)
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#59An observation: Instructure (Canvas) was started by a couple of college students; it was born out of frustration with Blackboard.
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#60My slightly geekier explanation for Why Enterprise Software Sucks is to simply link to this facetious GH repo: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
This code is so over-engineered! So many useless patterns in play; and so many useful patterns that simply aren't warranted, also in play! The more I poked around this repo, the more funny stuff I found. Thank you, this was really enjoyable. And the package name is perfect.
Not mine, just one I ran across some time ago. But yes. Pretty much all of the reactions I've seen to the repo fall into two categories:
1) The guy who says "There's no way a real product could ever be this bad."
2) The gray-beard who responds, "You've clearly never worked on an enterprise Java product."