When acronyms collide: Peanut butter and jelly. Laurel and Hardy. SOA and VoIP. OK, so the last paring in the trio may not be a classic pairing, at least not yet, but they're starting to get cozy, and there's plenty of potential there for a long, meaningful relationship, Leon Erlanger finds. "As with mainframe applications, what was once the isolated, proprietary office PBX, then the IP PBX, has started evolving When acronyms collide: Peanut butter and jelly. Laurel and Hardy. SOA and VoIP. OK, so the last paring in the trio may not be a classic pairing, at least not yet, but they’re starting to get cozy, and there’s plenty of potential there for a long, meaningful relationship, Leon Erlanger finds. “As with mainframe applications, what was once the isolated, proprietary office PBX, then the IP PBX, has started evolving into a set of abstracted software services for unified communications that can be interwoven with business app services and processes in an SOA.” Slippery Slidy: InfoWorld Lead Analyst Jon Udell laments that we still lack a standard compound document format for the Web, which creates problems for such tasks as creating a presentation with HTML Slidy. He has concocted a couple of workarounds in the meantime, though.You won’t find these on YouTube: Sean McCown doesn’t spend all his days taming databases. He also invests plenty of time viewing IT training videos, then kindly lets folks like us know whether they’re worthwhile. Application developers, he says, would be well-served checking some selections from (fittingly) AppDev. “Their training is simply top notch. The production quality is very high, and the instruction is fantastic. … If you ever get a chance to take any of their training, don’t pass it up.” There there’s SQLUSA training: “I honestly can’t imagine a bigger waste of money. You’d really be better off learning SQL from a house painter.” Technology Industry