Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!david
From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Industry in Canada -- general remarks and questions
Message-ID: <2441@geac.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 13:28:18 GMT
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Posted: Sat Mar 12 08:28:18 1988
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In article <500@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris R. Lewis) writes:
>In article <2649@csli.STANFORD.EDU> tylman@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Galia Tylman) writes:
>>... The
>>large US companies that have "branch" offices in Canada tend to have their
>>research done in the US (ie IBM).
>
>Can't tell you much about AI, but some of the biggest US companies with
>branches in Canada do a fair bit of research here: IBM, Amdahl and Xerox
>to name a couple.  (Mind you, that's IBM Canada and Xerox Canada)

I don't know how much `research' these companies are really doing. From
the reports I have from friends in IBM Labs, not much new stuff is going
on in Canada -- mostly maintenance of older software and `Whatever Rodchester
doesn't feel like doing'. 

Does anyone know of a recent advancement made by these companies that was
totally developed in Canada? (ie: the result of some research?)

-david-

p.s. I do know of a number of US-based companies who are planning to open
Canadian research facilities, but futures are futures as they say.
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