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

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, and IBM'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

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. Some of these include Db2,

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, WebSphere Customer Center, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, IBM i compilers, and

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. The software lab was relocated to

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from a building at 1150 Eglinton Avenue East in

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(subsequently used by

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) on September 11, 2001.IBM Canada opens lab
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