[freeside] OT: Largest Commercial Software.

ivan ivan at 420.am
Thu Dec 14 14:33:40 PST 2000


This most certainly IS off topic, and completely unwelcome here.

This list is for support and discussion of the Freeside ISP billing
software. 

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:36PM +0100, A.C.N.S. Billing Department wrote:
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>         What's the largest commercial software ever written?
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> 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.
> 
> Windows 2000 is so large because it includes many components.  In
> addition to basic operating system functions, it contains an Internet
> browser, transaction processing modules for instant data updates over
> the network, and dozens of special drivers (modules to run specific
> devices or decode specific data formats).
> 
> Creating such a huge software product is no small challenge.  More
> than 4,000 people worked together for several years, exchanging an
> average of 90,000 email messages every day.  Writing the code itself
> was only a small part of the task; testing and debugging consumed
> more than 90% of the effort.
> 

-- 
meow
_ivan



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