Capital Builders: The tech giants who survived – and thrived

Perhaps the best way to look at the National Capital Region’s $5-billion-a-year tech industry is that it survived the very worst that could be hurled at it.
Bruised by the collapse of Internet share prices in 2000, the sector was brought to its knees by the telecom crash that followed. In 2008, after tech had nearly recovered, Nortel Networks – the anchor for the entire community – began its descent into bankruptcy.
Despite all that, despite the loss of tens of thousands of wel