Something I've noted about the Silicon Valley startup mentality, and I'm seeing in this discussion, is a lack of understanding of just how difficult enterprise projects actually are. The attitude is often that big companies work so hard for so long and spend so much on projects and still have crap, that they must be lazy and stupid. This is not at all the case. The enterprise is full of smart, hardworking, determined people - as good as Silicon Valley - and they still wind up with crap and failure most of the time. That's not a reflection on the enterprise, that's a reflection on the difficulty of the problems the enterprise tackles.

Like I told someone at a Silicon Valley enterprise/health meetup last year... if you saw a startup with $50M annual revenue, you'd think they're huge, right? I've worked on three different projects larger than that, and they're all small potatoes in their enterprises.