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for a java app to be sold as "Enterprise Edition", is there a requirement that it must be created using all the Java EE technologies and servers ?

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No. You can call your app whatever you want. "Super Great This is the Kitchen Sink" Edition. That's typically what people mean by an Enterprise Edition - their app is capable of handling the needs of an "enterprise" which is generally much larger than a small business.

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+1 here. Nevertheless, you should try to avoid confusion to your customers, when stating that your "Enterprise Edition" of your Java application may mislead and create confusion. And that's something you should avoid. – Fernando Martins May 19 '10 at 11:02
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+1. "Enterprise" really means scalability and addressing the feature requirements of large companies such as departmentalizing, integration with existing authentication systems, security, etc.. We sell "enterprise" software at Smart Bear, but also we can point to multi-thousand seat installation at multiple companies to show that it has these attributes. – Jason May 19 '10 at 14:11
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An enterprise application is supposed to have a class - great reliability/supportability blah blah blah...the list goes on and on ...It does not matter how the sofware has been built until it has all the qualities of an enterprise software

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An enterprise application is supposed to be robust and scalable. And of course, have business value that is aligned with the "Enterprise". A CD ripping app is not an Enterprise App, no matter how good or great it is. A CRM, on the other hand, is valuable to an enterprise, and therefore might have an enterprise edition.

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