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Re:"Enterprise software" is a social, not technical, (proble... by tx on Thursday September 20, 2007 @11:35AM (#57440)
Nice post. My advice for any college grad is to stay away form this stinky industry. I wasted two years out of college on billing systems with 1,500 Oracle tables with endless dumbest PL/SQL data-pumping procedures and dumbest data entry client software written in VB.

And nobody really cared about quality or efficiency. No algorithms, nothing even remotely interesting from a technical standpoint. Only schedule, "feature list" and annoying salespeople who kept selling features we did not even built. I hear that VB got replaced by Java now. And that is true: to keep those piles of shitty code running clients had to buy "service contracts".

We had a guy whose full time job was to write report generators. Ugghh...

It's not "software". It's "software porn".

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Re:"Enterprise software" is a social, not technical, (proble... by michaelneale on Friday September 21, 2007 @02:39AM (#57839)
>It's not "software". It's "software porn".

Its not that interesting ;)

I think VB is replaced by C# and ruby (if the rails enthusiasts succeed in getting it into the enterprise). Don't underestimate the amount of cobol still running though.

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