Largest Commercial Software package.

[David Newall]

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?