SOA: Diving into Part 2 of his latest series, Managing SOA Semantics Using Ontologies and Supporting W3C Standards, David Linthicum offers his take on RDF and OWL. “Using these Web-based standards as the jumping-off point for ontology and SOA, it’s possible to define and automate the use of ontologies in both intra- and intercompany SOA domains,” he explains. “We have a standards set of tools to define, manage, and share application semantics from domain to domain, including from the enterprise to the Internet, and back. It’s time we started to use them.” Columnists’ corner: Playing with Windows Vista has led Oliver Rist to understand why the security vendors are upset with Microsoft these days. “It’s got little to do with how the OS is architected. It’s got everything to do with how Forefront is a direct competitor to their enterprise products,” he writes in Forefont security out and about. Rist predicts: “If this stuff doesn’t slip up in keeping your signature protection up-to-date, it’s going to make a big dent in the AV market next year.”The news beat: Skype launches its first mobile VoIP service, which enables customers to use Skype anywhere. Tyan Computers says that new, more powerful Typhoon servers running quad-core Xeon chips will be available in January. And Quest unwraps the Public Folder Migrator for SharePoint. Best of the blogs: Following his column this week about the success XQuery has had with use-cases, Jon Udell shares some responses in this post. “Even at this late data a canonical set of XBRL use cases would be a great resource.” Technology Industry