Columnist’s corner: Not many enterprise-class storage products got their roots in open source but, as Neil McAllister points out in this week’s installment of Open Enterprise, Cleversafe’s ambitions are so sky-high that open source was the only option. “It eliminates the need for expensive, high-end storage equipment. Because the reliability and availability is built into the design of the storage middleware itself, a Cleversafe grid can be built with cost-effective commodity hardware,” McAllister adds. Best of the blogs: Second Life purveyor Linden Labs, meanwhile, open sources its client. Matt Asay welcomes them to the realm in Second Life’s second life … as open source. “The potential for something like this, in the hands of the global community that makes up the Second Life citizenry, is exciting and a fascinating test for open source.” Video: Bill Gates speaks with Marc Ferranti of the IDG News service before his keynote yesterday at the CES show in Las Vegas to discuss his vision of the connected home as well as his plans once he transitions into a part-time Microsoft employee. Watch it here. Show of the week: CES is in full force already — with Intel debuting three new quad-core chips, Yahoo adding a search application to its Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, and AMD bringing its Live to notebook PCs. Or, for full coverage see our special report: Consumer gadgets abound at CES 2007. Technology Industry