> The number of engineers they have is irrelevant to the point. The point is you pay someone to worry about a specific thing so you don't have to and (hopefully

> The number of engineers they have is irrelevant to the point. The point is you pay someone to worry about a specific thing so you don't have to and (hopefully) their expertise leads to a better product than you could have built. Yeah, and in my experience, that frequently fails to materialize which why I mentioned point C. Now, that could be arrogance on my part but it doesn't change my experience on the quality of the vast majority of outside software vendors.