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How corporate branding has taken over America
- bootload 17y ago"... 'Lockheed Martin doesn't run the United Slates,' observed a 2004 New York Times expose. "But it does help run a breathtakingly big part of it ... It sorts your mail and totals your taxes. It cuts Social Security checks and counts the United States census. It runs space flights and monitors air traffic. To make all that happen, Lockheed writes more computer code than Microsoft ..." That last line was a revelation.
- mahmud 17y agoWhy? Consulting conglomerates churn out a lot of code. Line for line, I would expect Infosys and Wipro to out produce Microsoft in code, but those guys are writing custom in-house enterprise apps. Not shrinkwrap software.