The new software companies

Never realized that a major company at Wall Street could have a higher developer to other employee ratio than an iconic software company like Oracle.

Luckily Paul Kedrosky enlightened me. Oracle 1 to 8 ratio, Renaissance technologies 2 to 3 ratio. Of course there are reasons why a smaller company can easily achieve a ratio like this, but still I would look at most "real" software company organizations with a skeptical view regarding their ratio.

At the end of the day, they create economic value with software, and if for example two thirds of your people are not creating that economic value, is the developer ratio really right?