SOA: Kicking off another series, David Linthicum posts Managing SOA semantics using ontologies and supporting W3C standards, Part 1. Okay, long headline but, then again, he asserts that “semantics and ontologies are making a comeback, and SOA is driving the push forward.” So this is hereby crowned ‘semantics and ontologies week.’ Special report: The 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards are in. Think bold transformations, including SOA and rip-and-replace upgrades. Such projects span education, financial services, government, health care, pharmaceutical industries and more. Congratulations to all the top finalists. Also, check out the accompanying slideshow. Gripe Line: Ed Foster reports that Lenovo downgrades its return policy. “Manufacturers can usually make the terms in their fine print harsher without anybody noticing. That’s not the case for Lenovo this time, though, because a sharp-eyed reader just spotted the fact that the company’s policy on product returns has gone from being one of the best in the laptop business to one of the worst.” The news beat: Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz calls the open sourcing of Java a ‘momentous’ change. Microsoft makes its corporate antivirus software, Forefront Client Security, widely available to beta testers for the first time; it can be downloaded here. And IBM retains its throne on the Top 500 Supercomputers list. Technology Industry