Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 9:43 am, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Enterprise application is any software application that is designed to be used enterprise-wide. More accurately, it is a software that is using a centralised database and operated from different offices, different lans, wans, etc. These terms apply to large companies where there are multiple networks, multiple offices and the same application and data must be used and access from all locations or at least by a number of people.
so, would these two qualify as enterprise applications: http://google.com http://yahoo.com
just asked, because they appear to be fairly popular and dont seem to be using .net or java
No, they are not enterprise applications. But, something like jabber server would be an enterprise application. The difference is that yahoo and google are public services that are available and used by all. Enterprise Applications refers more to softwares that one company or a corporate group would use.
I guess you are proving that it is not easy to define enterprise applications and that is why it is so much misused.
Regards Saswata