Best of the blogs: SOA is an ESB, SOA is governance, SOA is programming, but SOA is almost never an architecture, points out David Linthicum. Instead, marketing departments are pushing the product-oriented agenda, perhaps because it’s easier for prospective buyers to digest than the ‘notion’ of SOA. “This is a bad trend if you ask me,” Linthicum writes in this Real World SOA post.Hardware: IBM adds four-core processing to its low-end Unix servers. Big Blue refers to the System p5 505Q Express as its first 1U system with four processor cores and, claiming it is priced competitively with x86 boxes, aims the new server at mid-sized enterprises. Security: The British teen who flooded his former employer’s server with some five million e-mails gets sentenced to two months’ curfew. That means he’ll be confined to his home for parts of the day. Man, I got grounded worse than that the time in high school when I … well, nevermind that. The news beat: Oracle buys Sigma Dynamics to add more real-time predictive analytics to its own BI, middleware and applications. Microsoft is making the first release candidate for IE 7, a so-called feature-complete version of the browser, available to developers today. And IDC says that smart phones are losing out to feature phones as users opt for enhanced functions. Technology Industry