Passionate about IT You would imagine that continued exposure to new IT products would make a person somewhat detached, but only have to read today's stories to realize how passionate our writers are about IT topics. Is ZFS close to perfection? Like a successful Broadway show the new file system from SUN has collected praise from all quarters. Whether you agree with that accolade or are one of the detractors (do Passionate about IT You would imagine that continued exposure to new IT products would make a person somewhat detached, but only have to read today’s stories to realize how passionate our writers are about IT topics.Is ZFS close to perfection? Like a successful Broadway show the new file system from SUN has collected praise from all quarters. Whether you agree with that accolade or are one of the detractors (do they really exist?) don’t miss this week’s Ahead of the Curve. Does Ubuntu suck? Too soon to say, as Ubuntu just opened to the large public version 7.10 last week, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this would become the most popular Linux distribution on desktops and laptops. Which doesn’t mean that Ubuntu can’t be perfected. Read Randall Kennedy Entreprise Desktop for more. Jazz up those reports Let’s face it, usually there is little to be excited about creating a report, right? May be so, until now, but read Sean McCown preview of Crystal Reports 2008 and you are likely to change your mind. Normalize SOA! Last but not least (and not less passionate) is Dave Linthicum who explains in his Strategic Developer how SOA vendors may not always facilitate registry integration. Time to put the “service-oriented” back into SOA?In the interest of full disclosure this column was started using Ubuntu 7.10 and was completed on a Windows XP machine. Technology Industry