very few companies have the billions of development dollars the above handful of companies have to throw at the problem to try to make it tractable.
95% of "enterprise software" is typically a small developer team of 5-10 people that delivers a product with some features, usually developed in and around J2EE, CORBA, COBOL, etc. It's then sold and supported by a marketing, sales, conference, booth, and sales engineering budget of billions of dollars. Haha!
The other 5% of enterprise software is what you described above. :)
On point! And so begins the large IT company lifecycle...
- Those hundreds of sales engineers weave a spaggeti junction of pseudo products around the core application to suit the whims of the C-level clients and their buzzwords of the month
- The company gets frustrated when this begins to break down leading to sales delays and embarks on a disasterous rearchitect which pits the sales engineers (microservices!) and core engineers against each other.
- The sales delays lead to cost cutting and the old guard make a timely exit with a nice package. The laid off sales engineers get a better gig due to the buzzwords on the cv.
- At some stage in the old guard are brought back to maintain the old core that is still running the company, but now charge a hefty consultant rate.
95% of "enterprise software" is typically a small developer team of 5-10 people that delivers a product with some features, usually developed in and around J2EE, CORBA, COBOL, etc. It's then sold and supported by a marketing, sales, conference, booth, and sales engineering budget of billions of dollars. Haha!
The other 5% of enterprise software is what you described above. :)