Best of the blogs: Revisiting a topic that has yet to garner much attention, Matt Asay explains open source franchising. Such a model could, in effect, provide basic services at a better price and quality than most enterprise IT shops. Novell with its certification program already in place is poised to take the lead, and Sun is another company Mr. Asay writes is “perfect to trial a franchising program.” New to our site: Well, it’s not brand spankin’, but Strategic Developer is entering a fresh phase, replete with a new author, the self-described dilletante Martin Heller. To give you some idea of what he means, Mr. Heller started with hex machine code, and he’s been at it ever since. Find the Strategic Developer blog here. Technology Industry