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DataGator offers encryption protection for your sensitive data (continued)

Currently, DataGator is available for North American users only (according to information at PalmGear), due to its strong encryption. I was under the impression that strong encryption was now exportable to the countries who have signed the Wassenaar Arrangement. These countries are Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the USA. If you work in any of these countries or if you work for a multinational organization, you may want to check with JAWZ to determine whether or not they'll be able to deploy this application internationally.

Although it's well-designed and well-intentioned, I can't fully recommend DataGator at this time. The lack of a companion application for desktop encryption is a major flaw that JAWZ should have been well aware of if they were monitoring the Palm computing newsgroups. Also, the price of the Standard edition is a little bit steep for protecting only the built-in applications. Security is an enormously important issue for handheld enterprise computing. DataGator shows signs of heading in the right direction, but it's not the ultimate solution we've been waiting for.

Product availability and resources
For more information on DataGator from JAWZ, visit http://www.jawzinc.com.

For more information on DB2, visit http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/.

For more information on Sybase, visit http://www.sybase.com.

For more information on PalmGear, visit http://www.palmgear.com.

For more information on the Wassenaar Arrangement can be found at http://www.wassenaar.org and at http://www.gilc.org.

For more information about Palm computers, visit http://www.palm.com.

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