It's all about your goals

Posted Apr 20, 2011 9:12 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (guest, #32870)
In reply to: It's all about your goals by khim
Parent article: Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

> Yet the exact same model works just fine for Adobe (Photoshop and Illustrator), Apple (MacOS and iPhone), Microsoft (Windows and Office) and numerous other companies. I think it's question of balance.

Market cap and employees:

AAPL $309.92B (2 of 4683) 
     around 37k employees
MSFT $215.17B (5 of 4683)
     > 100k employees
ADBE $16.98B  (288 of 4683, 48 of 839 in Application Software)
     >9k employees
Canonical (?)
     320 employees

Spot the difference :)