Best of the blogs: Undertaking a project the scope of SOA almost always raises questions about money — namely, how much will it take? “Most organizations building a SOA don’t have a clue how to approach this, and in many cases grossly underestimate … hoping that their bosses and accountants won’t notice later,” David Linthicum explains, and offers some guidelines for calculating the cost of SOA. Podcasts: Jon Udell speaks with Rajiv Gupta, CEO of Securent, fresh-from-stealth mode startup tackling “the thorny problem of fine-grained access control.” In this podcast, the two discuss XACML, how to “wrap or intercept legacy security policies to hoist them out of application logic” as well as the relationship between fine- and coarse-grained security. The news beat: EMC reveals plans for an embedded version of its Documentum content management software tailored specifically so applications vendors can build it into their programs. Yahoo inks an online deal with seven newspaper publishers to deliver local advertising and search to readers. And Microsoft ramps up its software-as-a-service efforts in Europe. Technology Industry