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Software shouldn't be hard. That's why we back our rugged boards and subsystems with all the tools you need to easily and rapidly design, integrate and support your deployed electronics systems. You can depend on our board support packages, built-in test routines, diagnostic utilities, extensive software libraries and broad operating system support to reduce design costs and get your product to market faster. That's hard evidence that makes Curtiss-Wright the easy choice. system and support software designed to ease integration and reduce system development time. When Linux was born on August 1, 1991, nobody was aware that 15 years later the scale of supported hardware would range from tiny microcontrollers up to large multiprocessor mainframes. Today, even in the automation and machine industry, the use of Linux has become more widely accepted. Without constraining the freedom of open source software, it is still necessary that the user-specific intellectual property be protected against external access and illegitimate manipulation. Read more in the special feature starting on page 5. According to the Electronics Trend Publications data, the global PC/104 boards market amounts to around 120 Million Euros. The largest volumes of PC/104 boards are used in industrial and in defense systems, 50% and 20% respectively. Customer demand for functionality and reliability of PC/104 systems very often require additional efforts from boards developers and specific engineering solutions for their realization. An article starting on page 16 will discuss main solutions that bring more processing power, improve reliability, widen operational temperature range and, therefore, expand the PC/104 products application area. The main objective of the SCOPE Alliance is to help to develop a powerful ecosystem that enables the Network Equipment Providers to build Carrier Grade telecommunication systems from components supplied by different vendors that fulfill the needs of their customers. The SCOPE Alliance has already developed profiles for the PICMG 3.0 Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture 3.0 specification and for the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux 3.2 specification. Read more in the article starting on page 28. IP-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is taking off quickly. The Gartner Group predicts that by 2007, there will be between 100-160 million machine-to-machine connections worldwide that use wireless mobile phone networks. 880 million new M2M-enabled devices will be produced annually by 2010, according to the Focal Point Group. Given these predictions, embedded designers need to consider all options and issues involved in the selection of an IP-enabling M2M solution. Read …