The St. Petersburg Times - Business - Hewlett-Packard to Open St. Pete Lab: "Hewlett-Packard to Open St. Pete Lab
By Yekaterina Dranitsyna
American IT giant Hewlett-Packard announced plans to open a research center in St. Petersburg on Monday. Local experts considered the move positive, both for HP and Russian software developers."

"I think the St. Petersburg labor market is very attractive for IT companies in terms of available high-end specialists - software engineers and software architects. Advanced specialists were often left without good job opportunities in the city," said Mikhail Zavileiskiy, Chief Operating Officer of DataArt.