A while ago I was going to post a quick something that I saw about the Ottawa Tech Sector from the Ottawa Citizen, but didn’t post it. Unfortunately things didn’t seem to be going well in Ottawa high-tech despite some encouraging signs from some companies. Article below:
But now it seems we could have some more bad news for Ottawa (really Canada) tech with RIM’s recent announcements. This will affect the growing tech economy of Waterloo much more than Ottawa’s but there will be an effect. RIM is one of the local bright spots.
Who is going to be Canada’s tech anchor? It looks like RIM is still a major force and will remain the number one tech company in Canada for awhile. But who will be Ottawa’s anchor? Since the demise of Nortel we don’t seem to have a large, world-class, exporter of technology (apologies to all the smaller Ottawa companies out there). Maybe an anchor is not required beyond the government and it’s tech contracts, but I think a big world-beater would be good to have in town.
