Best of the blogs: “In the traditional proprietary model, enterprises buy on faith and then pay through the nose to give substance to that faith. One of my current competitors sold a system to a company I know well for nearly $1M…and two years later no one can get it to work,” explains Matt Asay in Paying for production, not development. “This could not happen in open source. You would know whether the product would work for you or not before you had to put hard dollars on the table.”Columnists’ corner: There’s more than meets the eye to AMD’s buy of ATI. “Remember you heard it here, AMD is strongly considering open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATI’s graphics drivers. It’s time for X Window System, OpenGL, and client virtualization for which ATI binary drivers aren’t available to escape the ghetto of the 1980s-era framebuffer,” Tom Yager writes in AMD talks about ATI. Podcasts: Today, a conversation with Patrick Hynds, senior architect at NTP Software. I speak with Hynds about why this is the ‘summer of storage’ as well as the problem of storing what he calls junk and how that figures into the personal petabyte. Tune in to Storage Sprawl. The news beat: Intel aims low-cost memory chips at cell phones in developing countries. The FTC says that Rambus illegally monopolized markets. And RealNetworks will distribute Google, Mozilla applications in a three-company partnership to take on Microsoft’s media player and browser. Technology Industry