======================================================================== TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS DAILY SCOOP http://www.infoworld.com ======================================================================== Thursday, December 23, 2004
IN THIS ISSUE * Honeycomb to sweeten Sun NAS line * Security jobs on the rise * New Trojan threatens Symbian smart phones * In Brief: Rogue Wave Software partners with Sun * Apache Avalon project closes down * Acer settlement lifts PalmSource to quarterly profit -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ADVERTISEMENT RESEARCH STUDY: THE KEY TO BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT Today's enterprise is increasingly dependent on IT, to the point that operating without its services is nearly impossible. Are you on the shortest path to IT-business alignment? Find out when you download this complimentary benchmark study from Filigree Research, sponsored by BMC Software. You'll learn about the current state of IT-business alignment in 565 IT organizations around the world. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A95822:2B910B2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ======================================================================== HONEYCOMB TO SWEETEN SUN NAS LINE Sun Microsystems has quietly moved a team of approximately 20 of its research engineers into its Network Storage product group, assigning them the task of developing a new storage appliance designed for massive data archives. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A9581C:2B910B2 ======================================================================== SECURITY JOBS ON THE RISE While IT employment numbers may be lagging, there is a glimmer of hope. The number of cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow at an annual compound rate of nearly 14 percent from now until 2008, according to a study released in November. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A95818:2B910B2 ======================================================================== NEW TROJAN THREATENS SYMBIAN SMART PHONES A new Trojan horse aimed at smart phones using Symbian operating system galloped in earlier this week, just in time to spoil the holiday season for uninformed wireless gamers. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A9581A:2B910B2 ======================================================================== -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ADVERTISEMENT INFOWORLD WEBCAST: FOUR EXCUSES FOR UPGRADING YOUR NETWORK InfoWorld's CTO Chad Dickerson discusses four technologies that you may want to consider when upgrading your network. This webcast is tailored to small- and mid-sized businesses looking to leverage enterprise-class technologies, like VoIP, SANs, Gigabit Ethernet and enterprise-class security, on a fraction of the budget typically required. Chad relates his experiences as a columnist and technologies. A companion webcast to P.J. Connolly's article "Small Networks Bulk Up." Sponsored by Cisco Systems. Register and view now. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A95824:2B910B2 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ======================================================================== IN BRIEF: ROGUE WAVE SOFTWARE PARTNERS WITH SUN Rogue Wave Software and Sun Microsystems have formed an alliance intended to help enterprises quickly and easily migrate legacy applications to Sun's Solaris 10 OS. The agreement calls for Rogue Wave to port and certify its enterprise C++ development toolkits including SourcePro Core, SourcePro Net, SourcePro DB, SourcePro Analysis, and Rogue Wave LEIF on Solaris 10 for both Sparc- and AMD Opteron-based systems. These tools are particularly aimed at helping help developers in the financial services, telecommunications, and government sectors to migrate existing Windows apps and develop new applications on Solaris 10. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A9581D:2B910B2 ======================================================================== APACHE AVALON PROJECT CLOSES DOWN Avalon, an Apache project to build a framework for object-oriented, component-based programming, has been shut down, forking off into several separate open source efforts, an official of the Apache Software Foundation confirmed on Wednesday. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A9581B:2B910B2 ======================================================================== ACER SETTLEMENT LIFTS PALMSOURCE TO QUARTERLY PROFIT A November settlement with Taiwan's Acer helped push PalmSource into the black during the second quarter of its fiscal year, even as shipments of Palm OS-based devices declined compared to the same period last year, the Sunnyvale, California, company said Wednesday. http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=A95819:2B910B2 ====================================================================== -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ADVERTISEMENT THE POWER OF DESIGN, AN INFOWORLD WEBCAST ON MODELING Did you know that with the power of a model-driven approach, one can simplify new architectures, improve development performance, and respond rapidly to changes across other data models? 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