It is the nature of a recession that when one segment of the ecomomy stalls, others pick up. From your vantage point your area has stalled but the other areas ae picking up the slack.
It is the nature of a recession that when one segment of the ecomomy stalls, others pick up. I know. Its just interesting that the divergence is so dramatic in a segment widely thought to have no downside. In the past we've had housing recessions, car recessions, and so forth. High-tech has always had cycles, this is a deep one.