Re: Steve Ballmer says IBM is not innovating lately

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 10:20 -0400, Steve Richter wrote:
> http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=14
>  I cant disagree with what Ballmer says about IBM. Working on a mega sized 
> 570 lately. It is crazy that we have to crunch our file and program names 
> down to 8 and 10 characters. With 1.5TB of data and programs, after a while 
> you run out of characters for the object names!
>  -Steve

Not very likely.  You might have some trouble with systematic naming
methods, but you will have a very hard time running out of naming space
even for a ten character object name.

Consider if the first character must be a letter, A-Z for 26
combinations, and limit the other nine characters to A-Z and 0-9 for 36
combinations, you can easily get 26 * 36^9 possible combinations, or
2,640,558,873,378,816 possible names.  More if you include some of the
available punctuation characters.  But, you probably knew that already.

Why are you posting this?  Nothing better to do?  Just trying to piss
people off?  I happen to think Steve Ballmer is just the mouth piece of
Microsoft, and _anything_ he has to say has to be taken with a big grain
of salt due to his blue colored glasses.

Regards,
Rich