We're Number Six!

[legion]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039699&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. 71,426 8.3%
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va. 170,429 6.1%
Raleigh-Cary, N.C. 27,020 5.3%
Boulder, Colo. 7,925 5.2%
Huntsville, Ala. 9,390 5.2%
Bloomington-Normal, Ill. 4,216 5.0%
Trenton-Ewing, N.J. 8,519 4.8%
Austin-Round Rock, Texas 37,206 4.8%
Manchester-Nashua, N.H. 9,814 4.5%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash. 75,557 4.5%
Colorado Springs, Colo. 12,511 4.3%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif. 89,989 4.3%

And I can tell you from personal knowledge, there are roughly 8,000 IT jobs in Bloomington/Normal, meaning that the census number of 4,216 is way low.

[cstreit]

..and 7999 are employed at State Farm... Navigated their IT in a sales cycle last year, holy Moly!

[KFC911]

Until the IT boom hit silicon valley several years ago, the Raleigh (Research Triangle Park) area boasted the highest concentration of PHDs per capita in the world, and has always been a hotbed of IT development (I worked for IBM there in the early 80s)...not too shabby for sum dum rednex !

[Scott R]

Boulder needs to move down the list a bit, I wonder if the write got the memo about IBM leaning out half of it's boulder workforce this year. Thank god I quit that suck hole when I did.