I'm sure that "800 professionals" equates to something like 4
developers, 1 tester (part-time), 2 documentation specialist, and 792
marketing, sales, administration, legal staff and others required to
justify its cost, and 1 CEO who has his fingers into everything at MS.
Tim Allen wrote:
>The Register has an interesting interview with the vp of Microsoft's SQL
>Server team:
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html
>
>Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat Database" as a
>competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't think anyone can match
>their "investment" of "800 professionals" to work on SQL Server.
>
>Now I'm sure he didn't mean it to sound this way, but what I conclude from
>that is that you fellows are all an order of magnitude or two more
>productive than anyone at Microsoft :-).
>
>Tim
>