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Well the order was somewhat unexpected. Surprised about IBM, HP and Dell.

IBM and HP are absolutely huge B2B service providers. HP has over 300,000 employees; IBM has over 400,000. By comparison, Google is an order of magnitude less, at about 35,000 excluding Motorola.

to add a precision to your post: and most IBM and HP's employees are billed by the time. Headcount is proportional to market size.

Google employee's time brings no revenue per se. Headcount is independent of market size (the only limiting thing is customer support whose max is O(log(customer)), and we are talking about google ...)

Why is customer supporter log(n)? Seems it would be nlog(n) (because of management overhead)

community support + services companies when you're big enough.

I'm surprised about Foxconn

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