Best of the blogs: The company's devout legion doesn't typically ask probing questions, so Zack Urlocker will. "I was wondering why it is that Apple is often thought of so well in open source circles," he writes in this Open Sources post. "Yet Apple is actually more closed than most companies. They use some open source in Safari and OS/X but as far as I can tell, they don't give that much back."

From the feature well: This week marks our Virtualization Executive Forum. Companies are forging ahead with server virtualization, such as Credit Suisse with some 20,000 servers to manage, which conceived of the environment as a shared service. Or Nationwide Insurance and its adoption of the technology for x86 boxes and mainframes alike. And lest I forget those on the road to desktops. Virtualization on the front lines.

SOA: With AJAXWorld happening this week, David Linthicum thought the time was right to revisit the links between the show's namesake and SOA. "As SOA becomes more of a standard way of looking at architecture, many are seeking new standards-oriented interfaces that are able to externalize services to user interfaces, in many instances, on the platform for the Web," he writes in the simply, but aptly, titled AJAX and SOA. "AJAX tools seem to fit the bill nicely, and many are more oriented toward SOA than others."

The news beat: Microsoft issues Release Candidate 0 of Windows Server 2008, formerly Longhorn, as a public test version to replace Beta 3. AT&T and Frontline appeal the FCC's spectrum auction rules and claim that it could shut out small bidders. Apple says that iPhone hacks will void the warranty because, the company asserts, they could irreparably damage the device's software. And Global Communications shows off Video over Untwisted Pair, or the ability to 'digitize light into six-foot diameter signals to deliver broadcast-quality content' at the DEMOfall '07 conference.

Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 25, 2007 10:48 AM