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Compugen Inc., a Microsoft Gold Partner and one of the largest Canadian-owned IT solution and service providers and PC systems integrators, is pleased to announce that it has been chosen as Microsoft Canada's top Large Account Reseller for customer satisfaction in 2005.

The SecureIT Alliance is dedicated to enabling participating security partners to more easily and efficiently integrate their solutions with the Microsoft platform to build innovative security features and products for the benefit of customers. Altiris offers expertise in multi-layered security management solutions that help improve security for customers on the Microsoft platform.

Innobase is the developer of discrete transactional database technology, InnoDB, that is distributed under an open source license. "Oracle has long been a supporter of open source software such as Linux and Apache," said Charles Rozwat, Oracle's Executive Vice President in charge of Database and Middleware Technology.

Samsung will combine its servers and DataCore's SANmelody software to build entry-level systems aimed at penetrating the small-to-medium sized business customer base in need of storage networking.

Avinti Inc., a leading provider of e-mail outbreak protection, issued a security alert to all IT departments and e-mail hosting companies regarding a newly discovered Targeted Destination E-Mail attack. The Targeted Destination Attack uses a harvested, specific destination IP address to bypass existing hosted messaging services or internal gateways to deliver a malicious payload directly to a user.

Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and consumer storage products, announced that the company and its U.S.-based employees have raised $124,000 for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Consistent with overall employment weakness reflected in the September employment report, the number of information technology (IT) jobs declined 0.48%, or 16,800, in September to 3,518,500. Despite the recent weakness, on a year-over-year basis, IT employment was still up 1.3% from September 2004.

Novell announced its market-leading Identity Management product, Novell Identity Manager, received the highest score in a comprehensive review of major identity management solutions by InfoWorld.

Westcon Group, Inc. announced that its Westcon division is distributing the entire line of Trapeze Networks' mobility products, including its Mobility Exchange switches, its Mobility Point access points and its Ring Master deployment and monitoring tool.

Novell announced the launch of the Better Desktop initiative, a new component of the openSUSE project that provides open source developers with usability testing data and resources they can use to improve the quality of the Linux desktop.