Several of the executives pressed Mr. Bush to support an expansion of the number of visas granted to high-technology professionals seeking to work in the United States, a labor force Silicon Valley has come to depend upon.
Schools in California, like the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, are planning executive education programs in the Santa Clara Valley aimed at high-technology professionals.
Senator Rubio has been out shopping his ideas: more visas for high-technology, professional and temporary agricultural workers, a national work-eligibility verification program and provisional legalization for the 11 million undocumented, who would not be granted permanent status until all other legal immigrants got their green cards.
According to William Frey, a demographer at the University of Michigan, a "new Sunbelt" has emerged, one that relies on the opportunities of high technology to lure young professionals inward from the east and west coasts.
Paradoxically, it is a military organization that opened itself up to the whole community, exposing its challenges to a broad and diverse group of high technology, public relations, and policy professionals to assist in developing the next direction of the organization, ultimately making it stronger.
Zeph takes Edward to a LAN party -- LAN stands for Local Area Network -- where dozens of undersocialized information technology professionals pit their wits over high-bandwidth cables.
San Francisco has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including financial services, tourism, and (increasingly) high technology.
Some positive implications include influx of foreign currencies and capital, better opportunity for professional training, improving quality of care and access to high technology equipment.
That's because, although living in the area requires maintaining a relatively high $54,685 annual family budget, families residing in San Jose, including scores of Internet and technology professionals, earn a median $100,000 per year.
Another Robert Half survey also found that the average starting salary for technology professionals would increase 2.8percentt in 2007, while starting pay for high-demand positions like software and Web developers is expected to climb by at least 4percentt.
Although living in the area requires maintaining a relatively high $54,685 annual family budget, those who reside in San Jose, including scores of Internet and technology professionals, earn a median $100,000 per year.
