I understand the need for support around a complex and constantly evolving codebase, but this is the scale of it that I can't grasp.
Software is supposed to scale almost for free, they don't need people to actually make the transactions and push the bits by hand, this is all automated.
My guess is they have a lot of sales and an enormous amount of overhead.
According to Price's Law about 100 people are doing half of the work, but of course it is difficult to guess which ones and they still need the other half to be there.
Software is supposed to scale almost for free, they don't need people to actually make the transactions and push the bits by hand, this is all automated.
My guess is they have a lot of sales and an enormous amount of overhead.
According to Price's Law about 100 people are doing half of the work, but of course it is difficult to guess which ones and they still need the other half to be there.