A market survey in Canada shows that the IT business is booming in the hardware and software markets are doing very well.

The Conference Board of Canada's “Canada’s Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing Industry -- Spring 2007” report says that industry profits nearly doubled to $2.1 billion in 2006.

The figures suggest that while things are good, they still have not returned to the heady days of the dot.com boom as the profits are nowhere near as high.

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