23 per shareaccording to Reuters Estimates

Fourth quarter earnings came to $1.15 billion, or $1.23 perdiluted share, compared with $1.1 billion, or $1.08 per share,a year earlier, the company said on Wednesday. The resultmatched analysts' average forecast of $1.23 per share,according to Reuters Estimates. The company maintained its 2009 profit forecast of $4.65 to$5.15 per share, ranging from a 5 percent decline to a 5percent rise from a year earlier. "UTC had a solid close to 2008 in spite of deterioratingend markets and currency headwinds," said Louis Chenevert,president and chief executive, in a statement. "We saw theimpact of difficult economic conditions on our order rates." Orders at Otis elevators fell 14 percent and Carriercommercial heating and cooling systems orders fell 7 percent.

The Hartford, Connecticut-based company generates about 60percent of its sales outside the United States. Investors arecounting on service revenue for its products to help offsetweaker demand in the face of a global recession. Its shares have fallen by about 27.5 percent over the pastyear, a more modest decline than the 33.6 percent slide of theDow Jones industrial average .DJI United Tech is a Dowcomponent. United Tech's main competitors include General Electric Co(GE.N) in jet engines, EADS (EAD.PA) subsidiary Eurocopter inhelicopters and Switzerland's Schindler Holding (SCHN.S) inelevators.

(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Derek Caney) Stocks. TelosIT Helps Company Expand Capacity, Achieve Dual-Site Data Redundancy WhileSaving Tens of Thousands on Lease Renewals on Previous Generation SANFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.(Business Wire)DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, nowincludes Matrix Design Group, a planning, environmental and engineering designfirm headquartered in Colorado, among its many multi-site, disaster recovery(DR) customers - courtesy of authorized partner, TelosIT. They have alarge number of state and government contracts served from seven locationsthroughout the US. "The DataCore solution implemented by TelosIT not only centrally pools our datastorage resources, but it automatically replicates data between our offices inColorado Springs and Denver - for a fraction of the cost of renewing our singlesite SAN equipment lease," said Eric W Smith, vice president, Matrix DesignGroup. "Additionally, with DataCore and Virtual Iron in place bothadministration and management were simplified greatly and I was able to furtherreduce my IT spending." TelosIT saw the opportunity to achieve large cost reductions while addressingMatrixs storage expansion and remote DR requirements.

As Kevin Carlson, CTO atTelosIT tells it, "We jumped on the opportunity to replace Matrixs existing EMCSAN, due up for renewal with Dell, with a much more comprehensive approach basedon DataCore SANmelody software. It was clear that the switch meant tens ofthousands of dollars in savings." The EMC system alone took up half a rack of space for just barely 1 TB ofstorage and required a lot of cooling in the companys server room according toMr Carlson. "In order to renew the equipment, Matrix Design Group was lookingat having to shell out $60,000." TelosIT came in "way under" $60,000 for a remotely replicated DR configurationconsisting of 8 TBs of storage as opposed to the no frills 1 TB EMC SAN. Carlsonand his team were also able to reduce the rack space requirement down to afourth of what the EMC equipment was using. During the next budget cycle, Matrixs corporate headquarters located inColorado Springs will be upgraded to a full high-availability SAN byincorporating another copy of DataCore SANmelody software in a synchronouslymirrored HA configuration. Achieving Business Objectives: Meeting Storage Requirements, ProvidingRedundancy and Ensuring Integrity of the DataMatrix Design Group now has two 8 TB SANmelody licenses in production.