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From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,can.jobs
Subject: Re: Software Industry in Canada -- general remarks and questions
Summary: Yes Virginia, there is software development in Canada
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Date: 10 Mar 88 13:48:32 GMT
References: <5358@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Organization: CAE Electronics Ltd, Montreal QC, Canada
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In article <5358@watdragon.waterloo.edu> kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.edu (Krishna Gopinathan) writes:
>[on the topic of job opportunities in Canada in software development]
>I was under the impression that *very* little software development goes
>on in Canada ( :^) Canada exports lumber and imports high-tech. :-) ) 

Well, that's not entirely true!  At CAE Electronics, we have about 1500
engineers/physicists/computer scientists/wizards/etc who are developing
thousands and thousands of lines of code each year.

Our applications include Flight Simulators, Control Systems, Power Plant 
Simulators, etc etc etc.

>though
>I would agree that much of what does go on occurs in Toronto.

Well, I don't know about the rest of the industry (:-), but we're in Montreal.

>Would you say that today it has any significant impact on the Canadian economy?

I'm not sure whether you consider us a "software house" (:-), but we do 
export more than 90% of our production out of Canada.  

>Does the software industry in Canada consist more of multinationals (guess
>who??) or Canadian-owned companies?

CAE *is* a canadian company.

>I would appreciate hearing from you -- opinions as well as facts welcome.

I hope this helps...
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Denis Fortin                            | fortin@zap.UUCP
Group Leader, Real-Time Systems		| fortin@cae.UUCP
CAE Electronics Ltd                     | philabs!micomvax!zap!fortin
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