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IBM has almost 400,000 employees? woah that's crazy.

• bitdiddle 18y ago
  IBM is also a vertically integrated company, they do many things like services, software, chips, etc. It's not really a good comparison.
  • nostrademons 18y ago
    Google is also vertically integrated. They're famous for their NIH syndrome - they tend not to use anything developed outside the company.
    • pj 18y ago
      Vertical integration has led to some of the largest companies in history. It started with Andrew Carnegie and his steel company at the end of the 1800's. It fell out of favor around the 1970's and shifted to a mentality of focus.
    • cor2madera 18y ago
      Not true, Look at chrome, Its mostly leveraging various externally developed pieces of sw, and then adding some sauce (process isolation) into the mix. Google unlike other companies knows how to leverage open-source for its profit and does it like no other