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To: Tradelite who wrote (39037)	8/25/2005 3:38:35 PM
From: Live2Sail	Respond to of 306849

Tradelite, You are not seriously comparing the employment by and advancement of technology of Silly Valley to NoVa, are you? Ok, so NoVa has some large sales and customer support offices. Why do you put developing in quotes? A few people can sell a computer to the government, but it takes a thousand people and between 500M and 2B to "develop" a new high-powered computer. Those people are in silicon valley. Have a drink at the Duke of Edinburgh or The Faultline in Santa Clara. Listen in to the conversations -- enginerd central. I really, honestly wish that DC had all the tech and this place was the fertile, endless fruit orchards that it used to be. But it ain't so. L2s ------------------------------------------- re:<<Drive down 101 from Palo Alto to San Jose, and you will see the companies that produce every product inside your computer. There's no comparison to the density and impact of tech here vs. anywhere else.>> Drive down the Dulles Toll Road and thru Reston, and you'll see the same hardware/software companies' signs on top of buildings there, although not as prominently as you would have during the tech boom, because the companies can no longer afford the big signs. They might not be "developing" the product here on the East Coast, but they are servicing it in some way or another--and probably trying to save on plane fare between LA/SF and their clients located eastward.