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J E F F4
Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
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Kitchener, ON

J E F F4 to upsidedown

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Re: Canada's Tech Sector, straight into the ground.

Canada will always be limited because of our tiny population. We're 11% of the US, 2% of the Chinese, list goes on.

But we still have a lot of tech sectors. However, many are BORING. Many of the BORING ones have nothing to do with you and I for the most part. Open Text in this area continues to grow, but I doubt anyone really know what they do, even for some who work there. (they'll say banking software). QNX (now own by RIM) is, and will be, and will continue to be, used to cars, especially high end ones. Desire2Learn is also one of the worlds leading companies with their education software, and Christie Digital (projectors and 3D printers) are pretty much at the top. I only mentioned 4 companies, all on top, all in Kitchener-Waterloo, ONLY.

Canada has enough tech companies, but for the average Joe, when we think Canada, we think Avro, RIM and Nortel. But we have so much more than that. We just don't alway know, or are aware, of what else we have.

Did you know that the 2008 Chinese Olympics purchased all of their digital visual equipment, made in Kitchener? Or that the Nasdaq also did the same?

It's there...we're just uneducated.

Not only that, places like Markham, Ottawa and Kitchener are attracting a lot of foreign companies to set up shop in. Markham for example has Apple and Kitchener has Google.

Can we do more?

Yes.

Will we do more?

Yes.

Will we have success?

Yes.

Will we have massive failures after success?

Yes.

Will we recover?

Yes.

DKS
Damn Kidney Stones

join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON

DKS

said by J E F F4:

But we still have a lot of tech sectors. However, many are BORING. Many of the BORING ones have nothing to do with you and I for the most part.

Very true. We have a company in this city with 600 employees world-wide who are global leaders in mining equipment technology. They also own some interesting environmental technology patents which enable 100% recovery and recycling of aerosol cans and paints. They are literally "boring", but they are also expanding and innovating.

ekster
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Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC

ekster

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They aren't all boring, but a lot also have a tendency to stay out of the spotlight, or just not getting credit.

I can't think of a single huge space mission that did not involve Canada in a long while. The famous Apollo missions? Canada was there. The famous space station? Canada was there. Even the recent Mars mission? Again. Canada was there.

Our scientists are doing a lot. They just rarely get the credit they deserve.

The other problem is that while we do have companies, and people, who are amazing at it and are doing a lot more than people think, the final projects for which they end up working for aren't Canadian, so we get zero credit for it at the end. Had our governments been more open to this, rather than sticking to raw materials, we could easily be up there with the US, Japan, etc. but cutting trees and digging for oil is so much easier and with a lot less risk... so we'll just keep being known as lumberjacks while our scientists and our companies continue to do R&D work for other countries, who will get all the credit.

J E F F4
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Kitchener, ON

J E F F4

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No, they're not boring to the people involved with it. But as DKS See Profile was talking about a technology patent that enable 100% recovery and recycling of aerosol and can and paint, don't exactly make headlines around the world, nor are they watercooler talk.

I remember for years (and even today) CNN anchors talking about their BlackBerries. It was something people wanted, and eventually, they could get.

One of the other companies here, as I mentioned earlier, is Christie Digital, and most likely many have not heard of them, although likely they have felt their affects if they go to the movies at all. However, if they start making systems for peoples home, and become the leading source to go to for home theatres, then they might become a household name...