Cary is home to world-class businesses. The largest employer is SAS
Institute Inc., the biggest privately-held software company in the world.
Other widely known companies in Cary include MCI WorldCom, IBM, American
Airlines Reservation Center, Lucent Technologies, Siemens, John Deere
and Cotton, Inc. Business 2.0
magazine has put the area at the top of its “boom town”
list measuring cities’ capacity to create high wage jobs.