Columnist’s corner: Peeking into the future of rich Internet applications, a.k.a. RIAs, Ephraim Schwartz predicts that enterprise IT will adopt Tabblo’s model for storing and editing photos and text online. “The technology behind Tabblo’s RIA is not unique,” Schwartz explains in this week’s installment of Reality Check. “The more I look at companies such as Tabblo and at SaaS as a delivery model, the more I begin to see that we are being inexorably driven into the cloud.” Video: Executive editor Eric Knorr interviews Adam Gross, the vice president of developer marketing at Salesforce.com, who details Apex, the company’s programming language for creating SaaS applications on Salesforce’s platform. “What’s new with Apex code … you can now make applications smart.” Watch the video here. The news beat: Sun undercuts Red Hat on support pricing, and details subscriptions it claims cost half as much as similar plans from its rival. Symantec delivers new security software, dubbed SONAR, to hunt down zero-day attacks. Hewlett-Packard takes the next step in its ongoing reorganization by creating a new unit that consolidates its BI and information management practices. And Intel’s profits drop 39 percent; the chipmaker sites reorganizational costs, slow chipset and motherboard sales. Technology Industry