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COLORADO INFO
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Software
& Storage
•Number Employed:
53,200
•Major Companies: IBM, StorageTek, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett
Packard, Sun Microsystems, EDS, First Data Corp, JD Edwards/PeopleSoft,
Ciber Inc.
•Major Locations: Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins
•The above cities all rank in the top 20 cities nationwide for concentration
of
software-related jobs, according to American Software Assoc.
•Boulder/Longmont was ranked 1st in concentration of software jobs
for the 4th
consecutive year in 2003
•There are an estimated 3,000-plus independent software developers
working as sole proprietors/consultants
• Colorado is home to two of the world's top 10 fastest supercomputers,
located at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National
Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder
•Additional Information & Statistics:
- Colorado ranks 6th in the nation for software services
- Colorado ranks 2nd in share of computer and information science experts
- Colorado ranks 2nd in the nation in number of recent (within the past
five years) science/engineering graduate students
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