The beauty and the beast. The personal gadgets battle seems to be polarized around the joust between Blackberry and iPhone, while other illustrious players may have lost ground before even starting to be popular, Tom Yager suggests in Ahead of the Curve. Which one should you choose? Well, it depends on where your priorities are. In many ways, comparing these two phones is like making a choice between form and fu The beauty and the beast. The personal gadgets battle seems to be polarized around the joust between Blackberry and iPhone, while other illustrious players may have lost ground before even starting to be popular, Tom Yager suggests in Ahead of the Curve. Which one should you choose? Well, it depends on where your priorities are. In many ways, comparing these two phones is like making a choice between form and function. The iPhone has much to be liked, but hasn’t , and perhaps never will, come even close to the industrial efficiency of the Blackberry, Tom explains. VM safety, true concern or hype? While many more voices begin to suggest that a virtual environment is open to specific security breaches, others take a more cautious view, David Marshall explains in Virtualization Report. There are good points to be made for each side. Is VM security mostly a vendors driven concern to open yet another target platform for their products? If that’s the case, the additional cost of the security products could be an unnecessary burden that slows down the “P” to “v” move. On the other end, customers will hesitate to move applications to a virtual environment if they fear it could be less protected. Read more here about those opposite points of view.The future of Open Source? I see too many surveys for my own good, but this study on the future of Open Source has got my attention. Perhaps it’s because it was launched by a Venture Capital party, which it’s newsworthy in itself. Perhaps I am biased because the results of the survey will be disclosed at the upcoming, InfoWorld hosted, Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. If you are also intrigued by that survey read more here from Zack Urlocker Technorati Tags: iPhones,Blackberry,AT&T,Apple,Steve Jobs,RIM,VMware,security,Open Source,InfoWorld,Venture Capital,Virtualization Technology Industry