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Originally Posted by nmcclana
Well, if you have 1,000 developers working on something for a year, that's twice as many man-hours as if you had 500 developers. Of course, you need more overhead coordinating things, but still. MSFT has almost 100,000 employees while AAPL has 35,000.
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Doesn't work exactly like that. If Windows Vista has a feature that needs 1,000 manhours of coding, and it is a team of 5 people, that will take roughly 25 workdays to accomplish. You can't finish it in a day by throwing 125 people at it, or in an hour by throwing 1,000 people at it. There are diminishing returns and at a point, where no matter how many you throw at it, it doesn't help speed it up one bit and may even slow it down.