Communication is always an issue with larger companies. This is one of the awesome benefits of 0th/1st stage start-ups: the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing.
Communication is always an issue with larger companies
No, not always. A lot of the Google Chrome team hangs out in #chromium. If you come in to track down a bug showing genuine intelligence, it's likely a solution will start getting pushed down to user machines in the dev channel by the end of the month.