Mountain View is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, 10 miles north of San Jose and 34 miles south of San Francisco. The city is bordered by Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. The central location provides easy access to the entire San Francisco Bay Area and northern California cities.

Major Businesses/Technology

Agilent Technologies
Google
Handspring
Hewlett-Packard
Intuit Inc.
ILOG
KPMG
Legato Systems, Inc.
Microsoft
Netscape/AOL
PayPal
Pinnacle Systems
Remedy Corporation
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Synopsys, Inc.
VERITAS Software Corporation
VeriSign

Major Biotech/Pharmaceutical

ALZA Corporation/Johnson & Johnson
Aviron
Caliper Technologies Corporation
Iridex Corporation
Vivus, Inc.

Telecommunications

Ditech Communications
NetVersant Solutions
Nokia
OpenTV
T&D Communications
WebTV