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Software engineers' pool shallows, competition grows (BizJournals) - Whether you call it a dearth, a tight market or just a competitive labor landscape, local recruiters agree: It's tougher to find talented software engineers and developers.

Man gets 7 years for software piracy (CNET) - Owner of one of the nation's largest software piracy Web sites receives the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy.

Feds send GSA software contract back to bidders (BizJournals) - Information Analysis may lose a potentially lucrative contract it won last year to provide government agencies with a new software system for electronic forms.

Man Gets 7 Years for Software Piracy (Slashdot) - mytrip writes to mention a C|Net article about the largest sentence for software piracy ever handed down by a U.S. court. Nathan Peterson of Los Angeles has been levied with an enormous fine after selling millions of dollars worth of software between 2003 and 2005. "U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III on Friday ordered Peterson to pay restitution of more than $5.4 million. Peterson pleaded

Software manages classes (The Daily Targum) - What does Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai, who specializes in French cuisine, have to do with open-source online course-management software? Give up? His namesake is a piece of such software, and it debuted as a pilot program at the University this year. Sakai's creators were fans of the Japanese chef.

Software pirate gets record sentence (ARNnet) - A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group.

L.A. man gets prison for software piracy (AP via Yahoo! News) - The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.

Storage Replication Drives Worldwide Storage Software Market to Another Solid Quarter of Growth, According to IDC (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - FRAMINGHAM, Mass.----Sept. 11, 2006--According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market grew 8.6% year-over-year to $2.5 billion in the second quarter of 2006, marking eleven consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth.

Software company sees Sept. 11 victim ID effort as sacred duty (USA Today) - For the employees of Gene Codes, their work in identifying the remains of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks became a sacred duty that helped shape the software company. Already a producer of DNA sequencing software, Gene Codes developed the Mass-Fatality Identification System for their somber task.

Software Pirate Gets 7 Years (Wired News) - A federal judge sentences one of the largest U.S. software pirates to pay $5.4 million and forfeit homes, cars and a boat that he bought with proceeds from his scheme -- and spend 87 months in the hoosegow.