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The Austin chamber also spends a lot of time in he said. “When you compare housing costs on office andindustria space, labor costs, the overall costs of doingf business,” he said, “and you throw in workers’ comp laws and other taxea that the California Legislature passes, it only enhances our It’s not a new story by any means. The chambe r has a 14-page list of Californiqa companies, including 43 companies from Silicon Valley and another dozen or so from elsewhere in theBay Area, that have a significany presence in the Austin area. In 2007, for Borland Software Corp.
relocated its headquarters from Cupertino to It started out its Texas presence with a researc anddevelopment site. “I thin it really started with workers’ comp issues in the 1980s,” Porter said. “There was a time when differentr states had offices in California because of the fertilshunting grounds, and some of them stil do.” Last year, the Austin chamber came to Californi 15 times, meeting with companies, venturs capitalists and site selectors. “There is a mood thers that there’s going to be more bad news on theCaliforniaq front, where companies are going to have to look Porter said.