Open source: In an effort to differentiate between its enterprise and community distributions, Novell slaps the moniker openSuSE on the latter. The company will continue to offer openSuSE for free to the general computing market while SuSE Linux Enterprise is tailored for businesses. SOA: IBM is at it again. This morning it scoops up FileNet. In exchange for $1.6 billion dollars, Big Blue obtains business process and enterprise content management wares which it plans to integrate into its own SOA systems. FileNet marks the company’s third SOA-related acquisition in just two weeks. Best of the blogs: Firmware is not always as, well, firm as it appears. Take Plextor’s firmware upgrade that actually dissolved into something more closely resembling vaporware. “The message was all the more infuriating since the reader felt he was perfectly justified in having interpreted the sticker to mean that the firmware was already available,” Ed Foster reports in this Gripe Line post. The news beat: After foiling a terrorist plot to blow up airplanes, authorities in the U.K. are banning electronic devices, including laptops, as carry-ons for all flights. Sun Microsystems took the covers off Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540, a new family of external modular storage arrays. And a Utah man is charged with accessing the e-mail of a tech firm after his employment there ended, for which he faces as many as 15 years in prison. Technology Industry