at $100K per annum (Score 1)

at $100 thousand per annum would hire 8000 programmers for 10 years or 16000 for 5 years. (OK so they have to bring their own tools, like Gnu) but wow what would 80000 man years work produce.

My whole point really is what we mainly know, where the hell do they waste all the cash to get so little return for it?

I'm thinking they could save 7/8 of the cash by just hiring 1000 programmers for 10 years to refine their own Linux or BSD!