[Greasemonkey] A few thoughts on "Enterprise Greasemonkey"

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 8/2/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also like the comparision to EAI software. I never thought of the
> fact that it was also fragile, just like Greasemonkey.

Having survived an ERP implementation with oh-so-middleware, I can
testify that middleware is home to the almighty kludges-- core
business functions relying on screen scrapes and so on-- and that was
-with- the army (70!) of consultants.

We're using XPI (no relation to the Moz distribution file, but the
irony is sweet), which is a <strike>JDE</strike>
<strike>PeopleSoft</strike> Oracle wrapper over WebMethods, a uh,
well-regarded EAI toolset.  Good thing we have Gartner to tell us
about TCO.

The amount of money spent to make stuff work when access to the code
would have made things much cheaper and more stable is boggling.  And
this is happening in corporate ITs all over, I'm convinced.