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[cobalt-users] Re: Largest Commercial Software package.
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Largest Commercial Software package.
- From: "David Newall" <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Dec 19 11:12:43 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Charles,
> What's the largest commercial software ever written?
> If the size of a software product is measured by the number of lines
> of computer language (source code) required to make it, then the
> current winner is Microsoft Windows 2000. A complete printout of its
> 29 million lines of source code would form a stack of pages 193 feet
> high (59 meters), about as tall as a 19-story building.
The 50 million lines of code that run VisaNet's transaction engine (see
Wired 8.12, p344) dwarfs the measly Win2000. And unlike Win2000, Visa run
at 100% availability.
Did you have a point that was in any way related to Samba, Linux, Apache or
Cobalt?