Originally Posted by
nchinetti
I've been in the IT biz for 20+ years. Old school IT types like Trekkie or astronomy names ... I would be a rich man if I get a penny for every system named "Jupiter" or "Saturn". I like seafaring names, especially ones from tugs and seaway vessels (i.e. no "slippery when wet"
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I've been in the IT biz (or a developer working with the same) nearly that long, and Trekkie is only one theme among many - Star Wars is at least equally popular (back before the dot com bust, in a merger, who got to keep the server name "deathstar" for one of the large servers was a point of amused fighting between our in house guys and their east-coast counterparts.)
My present employer runs to less interesting coded names (eg "SFO-OWA-01" or "jdoe-t3500" for two close but not quite actual examples) but we used to use codes for workstations even (mountains on one model, then rivers on the next) and we've still got a half-rack of ancient servers around named after comic book villains.
As for my own systems, I've almost always used names starting with C (for "computer") but have occasionally had exceptions. My most recent run, from 2001 through a few months ago, ran through historical heads of state and generals, and having run out of interesting ones of those, my last two machines deployed have been scientists (at present: my wife's laptop: "COPERNICUS" and mine: "LAVOISIER".)