Enterprise grade means you’ll run it a long time

I’m always looking for definitions of “enterprise grade,” and this is a good contextual point for that:

The noise in the consumer market would have us believe that software is almost disposable. Something doesn’t work – junk it. Users don’t like XYZ software – replace it. Fail fast, fail often – that’s the road to success. That’s not the way (most) things work in the enterprise. It is largely true regardless of whether we’re talking a mom and pop shop, the truly global companies and pretty much everything in between. Whether they know it or not, most organizations make bets for the long term for the bulk of their software acquisitions.

Enterprise grade means you’ll run it a long time