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Oregon has been recognized for its leadership in the green, sustainable world, but rarely is it recognized for its state economy on a national level. This Wall Street Journal article does an excellent job portraying Oregon’s surge in employment and flexibility to layoffs from big tech companies with hiring from smaller companies like Kryptiq, Jive Software, Vidoop, and eROI.

Check out the article: Oregon Finds a Counterweight in Software

By JUSTIN SCHECK
June 9, 2008; Page A3

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hardware-manufacturing layoffs in the Northwest’s tech industry echo cutbacks that hammered it early this decade, but this time the blow has been absorbed by the scores of software and online-services companies that have sprouted in the past few years.

Old-line tech manufacturing is retrenching because of global outsourcing and fierce competition — the same factors that shuttered Northwest chip and computer factories starting around 2001. Then, laid-off technology workers in states such as Oregon had few other tech-job options. This time, there is a parallel tech sector, including many small start-ups, to take on some of those skilled workers.

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