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Columnists' corner:,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login By decade's end the U.S. will have a 10 million worker shortfall,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, reports Ephraim Schwartz in Filling the void left by baby boomer techies. Not all of those will be technology professionals but as IT cuts across all industries, we can expect to feel the impact. But there are steps IT can take now to prepare.
The news beat: Microsoft remains mum on Origami while bloggers keep fueling rumors and speculation. Google Base will get e-commerce functions. Cisco closes its acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta. And IBM and Novell back Project Higgins, an open source initiative to give users more control over how personal information is shared across multiple Web sites.
Storage: EMC CEO Joe Tucci sees changes for storage in 2006, namely continued consolidation, emerging technologies and the way data centers and infrastructure are managed. Symantec,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, for its part, issued new backup and recovery software with automated features for SMBs and consumers.
                                        InfoWorld Editor at Large Tom Sullivan covers a variety of topics for news and features, as well as produces the InfoWorld Daily podcast.
                                                                                                                                                       
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Security: Oracle publishes a critical security fix for its E-Business Suite nearly two months ahead of the company's next scheduled patch release,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz says that security and logistical problems have forced the company to push back the release of its Sun Grid project.