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To: mishedlo who wrote (70904)	10/4/2006 12:44:54 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

well there are 7 million people in the bay area (light estimate- does not include Marin or Santa Cruz). Statistically, if you combine the 5 counties (santa clara, san mateo, contra costa, san francisco and either marin or Santa cruz)- each of these counties has about 250K designated "tech workers" in it. Truth be told the government's designation of a tech worker is way too narrow, because they don't include recruiters, contractors to the companies that provide things like travel services, etc. The industry out here IS tech, and thats pretty much it. Each county has about one million workers. Honestly I would say its safe to assume 40% of the workers are related to the tech industry, but stats don't show it. Here are the companies that are out here (each with thousands of employees not including contractors): Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley; among those, the following are in the Forbes 500: * Adobe Systems * Advanced Micro Devices * Agilent Technologies * Altera * Apple Computer * Applied Materials * BEA Systems * Cadence Design Systems * Cisco Systems * Corsair Memory * DreamWorks Animation * eBay * Electronic Arts * Google * Hewlett-Packard * Intel * Intuit * Juniper Networks * Logitech * Maxtor * National Semiconductor * Network Appliance * NVIDIA Corporation * Oracle Corporation * Pixar Animation * Siebel Systems * Sun Microsystems * Symantec * Synopsys * Varian Medical Systems * Xilinx * Yahoo! Additional notable companies headquartered in Silicon Valley include (some defunct or subsumed): * 3Com * Adaptec * Amdahl * Atmel * Cypress Semiconductor * Foundry Networks * Hitachi Global Storage Technologies * Knight-Ridder (acquired by The McClatchy Company) * LSI Logic * McAfee * Netscape (acquired by AOL) * NeXT Computer, Inc. (now Apple) * Palm, Inc. * PalmSource, Inc. * PayPal (now part of eBay) * Rambus * Redback Networks * SanDisk * Sumco USA (formerly Sumitomo) * Silicon Graphics * Solectron * TiVo * VA Software (Slashdot) * VeriSign * Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec) * VMware (acquired by EMC) en.wikipedia.org; So, I reiterate my claim that there are MILLIONS of tech workers in the bay area.