Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:47:22 -0400> Tim Peters wrote:
[the enterprise]
>> It's an especially annoying American buzzword for "business use, as opposed>> to consumer, research, or educational use". Your enterprise-ready software>> is primed to take on the challenge of synergizing mission-critical business>> logic in empowering ways. IOW, it computes the sales tax right more often>> than not <wink>.>> > I always took "enterprise" to mean "runs on an AS/400 with a text interface",> or possibly as a synonym for "token-ring".
I thought it involved that starship with the federation and the vulcans and
such. Their computer system gets taken over by alien entities quite
frequently, so I imagine they run software for the Enterprise.
Deflect-the-warp-tetrion-plasma-field-dimensional-flux-ly yours,
Martijn
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