The NorthCarolinaTriangleArea includes Raleigh, RTP (ResearchTrianglePark), Cary, Holly Springs, Durham and Chapel Hill:

'''Research'''
* NcTriangleCompSciDeptsResearch

'''User Groups'''
* TriangleXpUsersGroup
* TriangleJavaUsersGroup
* RtpSpin
* RTP Rational Users Group http://www.rtprug.org (http://www.rational-ug.org/groups.php?groupid=46)
* RTP Websphere Users Group http://www.rtpwug.org 
* IEEE Eastern NC Section http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/enc/ (also see InstituteOfElectricalAndElectronicsEngineers)
* TrianglePatternLanguageUsersGroup (defunct)

'''Companies'''
* RoleModelSoftware

'''Events'''
* XpUniverseTwoThousandOne
* LuluTechCircus