Enterprise

   It seems to me that there is a lot of missunderstanding about what “enterprise” really is. People seem to think that “enterprise” is a system/language/framework ability to scale (up). The urban legends say that Java (the platform) is the undisputed “enterprise” language. Unfortunately nothing can be further from the truth.

   Have a look at this . Your regular PHP web application can easily scale up on that hardware. So how come Java is more “enterprise” that PHP ? Well…..enterprise really doesn’t have anything to do with scaling really. You can write scalable systems (both up and out) in pretty much any language. “Enterprise” is really about playing nice with others. Enterprise is really about distributed transactions. If your language/framework of choice supports this, then it can be integrated without problems into the IT infrastructure of any organisation. That is what “enterprise” is really all about.