Whistling or swaggering in the dark? In a recent tour of BEA, IDG reporters got an earful from BEA CTO Rob Levy as to why open source competitors fall short of the company's SOA wares. Open Source columnist Neil McCallister suggests that Levy relied on "half-truths and misleading facts" in attempting to make his case, and that his case, frankly, was bogus. For example, Levy suggests that BEA picks up the managem Whistling or swaggering in the dark? In a recent tour of BEA, IDG reporters got an earful from BEA CTO Rob Levy as to why open source competitors fall short of the company’s SOA wares. Open Source columnist Neil McCallister suggests that Levy relied on “half-truths and misleading facts” in attempting to make his case, and that his case, frankly, was bogus. For example, Levy suggests that BEA picks up the management slack where Apache Tomcat falls short. McCallister notes, however, that Tomcat is merely a Java servlet container, and “if what you want is a fully integrated, highly manageable Java application server, you might want to look for products a little higher up the stack — such as Apache Geronimo or JBoss, for example.”Another taste of Vista: Further whetting the appetite of Windows fan, Microsoft last Friday unveiled RC2 of Vista. The company still claims the OS will be ready to businesses next month and for users in January. Details of just how the new RC is an improvement over the previous one remains hazy, but stay tuned to InfoWorld’s ongoing coverage.Riding the SLED: After testing SLED 10 on his Thinkpad 60 laptop, Open Source blogger Dave Rosenberg concludes that Linux is A-OK for business users, despite a hiccup connecting to Wi-Fi after creating a new user account. “I can confidently say that the hardware is fantastic, the SLED Linux is good, but the applications are only mediocre. The only reason I haven’t switched entirely is because of Photoshop, though I suppose I could use WINE or Crossover,” he writes. Technology Industry