OK, repetition might not hurt, but it could be boring. To prevent boredom, I'll be brief:
Jeff Moore talks about his struggles trying to define enterprise computing. Like Jeff, I don't have a precise answer. But I have a couple of litmus tests that you can apply:
- Is there an MIS department involved?
- There are a large number of users - it needs to be several hundred or more.
- Are users in several geographical locations?
- Is it mission-critical - does operational failure of 1 day mean that someone very important will be screaming at MIS?
- Cost of project - did someone spend hundreds of thousands of US dollars or more?
- Is there a central server (or multiple servers) and data processing in the background?
- Is the value derived from the project (return on investment) by the stakeholders a large amount (eg. a couple of million dollars a year)?
If it fits all the above criteria, I would say it is enterprise computing.
PS: I will be going on holiday till the 25th of Oct. Have fun!
