The IBM Toronto Software Lab is the largest software development laboratory in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, and IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

's third largest software lab. Established in 1967 with 55 employees, the Toronto Lab (located in Markham) now has 2,500 employees developing some of IBM's leading middleware

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...

 software. Some of these include DB2

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

, WebSphere Commerce

IBM WebSphere Commerce

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a software platform framework for e-commerce, including marketing, sales, customer and order processing functionality in a tailorable, integrated package...

, WebSphere Customer Center, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, System i languages, and Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a commercial Eclipse-based integrated development environment , made by IBM's Rational Software division, for visually designing, constructing, testing, and deploying Web services, portals, and Java Enterprise Edition ...

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See also

• IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  
• IBM Centers for Advanced Studies
  IBM Centers for Advanced Studies
  The IBM Centers for Advanced Studies are a group of research centres around the world that facilitate collaboration with university students and professors using IBM systems. IBM's first CAS was established at the IBM Toronto Software Lab....
  
  
• IBM CASCON
  IBM CASCON
  CASCON is a Computer Science conference hosted by IBM in Toronto that occurs annually in late-October or early-November for 4 days in Markham, Ontario....
  
  
• IBM Rome Software Lab
  IBM Rome Software Lab
  The IBM Rome Software Lab is one of the largest software development laboratory in Italy, and one of the largest IBM Software Group Labs in Europe....