Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio?

An anonymous reader writes "I just learned that the company I work for annually budgets ~$17,000 for non-labor engineering expenses, but budgets ~$250,000 for non-labor marketing and sales expenses. Am I just being cynical when I say that my company spends almost 15 times as much trying to convince the outside world that we make a good product, than it spends on actually making a good product? What's the marketing-to-engineering ratio at your company?"

Re:http://www.linuxadvocates.com/p/support.html

[Anonymous Coward]

I see that the 'Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio' at Linux Advocates is equal. Equal to zero, that is.