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The Tyranny of Geography.

The software industry is more regional than one would think; most jobs in the field are centered in nine US cities. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/zlG75-adjcA is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier expanding on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he discusses how location plays an import...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 100 - 101
Main Author: Grier, David Alan
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Feb2015
Subjects:
Computer software industry
Cities & towns
Grier, David Alan
Computer software development
YouTube (Web resource)
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The software industry is more regional than one would think; most jobs in the field are centered in nine US cities. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/zlG75-adjcA is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier expanding on his Errant Hashtag column, in which he discusses how location plays an important role in software development and how nine cities hold 40 percent of the US software market, with particular specialties clustered in specific areas.