Our technology industry component covers 11 six-digit NAICS sectors covering information industries such as software publishing, Internet publishing, data processing, and tech-related business services such as computer systems design, custom programming, engineering services, and research and development.

FORBES: Methodology For Forbes' Best Cities For Tech Jobs List

"Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind, " says George Gray, a systems programming supervisor at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, who also writes a Univac newsletter.

CNN: Machines on a mission

If I can give just one example, as the manager of a computer department, it was essential that my staff were housed in two separate enclosed areas - one for the data preparation and computer operations staff where noise was inevitable, and the second for the systems and programming staff who needed a quiet environment in which to concentrate and create.

BBC: The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office