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  From: Bruce Moffatt <bmoffatt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:06:25 +1030

Re: OT: Largest Commercial Software package.

"Charles Williams ( CEO ACNS )" 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.

By another measure, Telstra's Cable Plant Records suite (CPR) must be
right up there. In development since mid 1980s, in commercial
development since 1990, still hosts a development team today. I can't
quote lines of code, but I could tell you stories of lives wasted,
marriages broken, friendships made and lost, countless hundreds of
millions of bucks, operating systems coming, arriving, being outmoded,
abandoned and still the apps live on and on. And all Australian, too.

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