Vienna commands a top ranking in Europe as an IT location – behind only London and Munich – with 8000 companies pulling in total gross revenues of 20.8 billion euros in 2003, or around 77 percent of Austria’s total of 27.1 billion euros that year. The 73,250 IT workers in Vienna represent around 70 percent of the 107,000 employed in the field throughout Austria. Austria, and Vienna in particular, benefit from unmatched expertise on Eastern Europe, and many of the multinational concerns with operations here, including Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, coordinate their activities in markets from Russian to Romania to Turkey and Central Asia from bases in Vienna. Vienna IT Enterprises (VITE) is the network for information technology and telecommunications in Vienna. It brings together companies, research, development and educational institutions in high-performance cooperative ventures and offers its members a diverse range of services.
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