The Ottawa Lab mission is to power software innovation through development tools, runtimes and advanced software components.

Ottawa is one of the world's most beautiful cities, and has been ranked sixth in the world for quality of life. Over its vibrant history, it has been a military building site, a thriving lumber town, the capital of a new nation, and most recently, a high tech hotspot known as Silicon Valley North.

Ottawa boasts a wide variety of urban attractions, from Canada's Parliament Buildings, National Arts Centre, twelve national museums, major institutions and historic sites, to the busy Byward Market, with its many restaurants, shops and pubs. At the same time, golfing, fishing, hiking, boating, whitewater rafting, and many other outdoor and wilderness activities are only minutes away.

The IBM Ottawa Software Lab is a small lab with a research focus and a big impact in development tools, runtimes and components. Its key contributions include the Eclipse Universal Tool Platform, DB2® Records Manager, the J9 Java™ virtual machine and class libraries, as well as state-of-the-art tools for model driven development such as Rational Software Architect and WebSphere® Business Integration.