People who feel passionate about what they do always have the potential to become anti-heroes. If the process for completing a project is broken, then that process should be fixed. But if the process won't budge, or there's no time... People who feel passionate about what they do always have the potential to become anti-heroes. If the process for completing a project is broken, then that process should be fixed. But if the process won’t budge, or there’s no time to concoct a new one for a wild new idea, then the bold among us start making it up as they go along.Our big feature article this week, “Guerilla IT,” is all about working with stakeholders who take matters into their own hands — and rather than fighting them, using their entrepreneurial spirit to lighten IT’s load.According to contributing editor Dan Tynan, who wrote the story, your first trick is to find the users who really know what they’re talking about versus the ones who simply make the most noise. Forge informal trust relationships with the right folks, and you can both reduce the risk of misguided mischief and gain a kind of auxiliary IT staff. Part of Dan’s article advocates enabling users to write their own lightweight applications, an idea that ties into this week’s big news: integration between Google Apps and Salesforce. In one swoop, Google and Salesforce.com have mashed together the two must popular software-as-a-service suites on the Internet. Castles in the air This joint announcement comes just a week after Google unveiled Google App Engine, a platform upon which developers can build and deploy Web apps that call on Google App APIs. Salesforce.com launched its own dev platform, Force.com, last fall. I have little doubt that such “in-the-cloud” development environments will become places talented users regularly frequent to build stuff when IT can’t get to it. And why not? Few organizations seem to get past the halfway point in their queue of app dev projects, so for non-critical stuff, what’s wrong with having users build apps themselves on a well-provisioned platform in the cloud?It’s all part of the evolution of cloud computing, which offers a new twist on the old “buy or build” question: buy, build, or assemble it like a Lego set from services available outside the firewall. From lightweight to laggard Cloud computing is fun to speculate about, but this week, Contributing Editor Randall C. Kennedy brings us back to earth with a fascinating story about the realities of desktop software in “MS Office: Fat, fatter, fattest.” No, it wasn’t your imagination. As Randall’s barrage of tests reveals, performance plunged and the hunger for resources soared in the progression from Office 2000 running on Windows 2000 to today’s Office 2007 running on Vista. Beginning this week, fans of Randall’s Enterprise Desktop blog can now subscribe to his InfoWorld newsletter as well. Alternatively, those who have left Windows behind can subscribe to InfoWorld’s new Enterprise Mac newsletter, which combines Tom Yager’s Enterprise Mac blog with assorted Mac and iPhone news. Technology Industry