I am still trying to understand their reasoning myself, unless you just have hundreds of servers I can see no reason to resort to numeric naming methods, that m

I am still trying to understand their reasoning myself, unless you just have hundreds of servers I can see no reason to resort to numeric naming methods, that might be fine for arrays/sorts/computers but not people. It looks good on racks but for representation to humans, argh. Ours are named for location and function. There are some large servers which have six character names as they so unique/important to the organization there is never a question. Usually though many fall into <owner+location+environment) However I can see justifications made in either direction, its no worse than coding conventions that people come up with.