Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 25, 2003 02:35 AM
"What company has that kind of margin? I have never seen any fiscal report with 99% profit-margin or something like that. The development costs are in most cases high but are divided by a large number of buyers.
Developing large software packages is very expensive. $150 for windows may seem expensive (or whatever it costs these days, I use MSDN subscription so I don't know) but each version of windows has several thousands of people working several years on it. Imagine to salary cost!"
Um, MS's profit margin on Office & Windows is above 80%. And they pay some of the lowest wages around for their programmers, or hire them as part-time or temps to keep their labor costs down.
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Re:Which Reality?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 25, 2003 02:35 AMDeveloping large software packages is very expensive. $150 for windows may seem expensive (or whatever it costs these days, I use MSDN subscription so I don't know) but each version of windows has several thousands of people working several years on it. Imagine to salary cost!"
Um, MS's profit margin on Office & Windows is above 80%. And they pay some of the lowest wages around for their programmers, or hire them as part-time or temps to keep their labor costs down.
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