Tartan Technology: A Stroll Through Silicon Glen

This story is part of a two-day series on the growth of the high-tech, Internet and software industries in Scotland.

GLASGOW, Scotland -- The drive between Glasgow and Edinburgh is a fairly pleasant, though often overcast, 50-minute jaunt down the M8 motorway.

The road that links Scotland's two largest cities is lined with trees, beyond which one can make out supermarkets, golf courses and fields of grazing cows. A number of business parks sit quietly, their neat modern buildings floating in an ocean of parking lots. ...