Podcasts: About a year ago, SWsoft bought Parallels. Only thing is: they didn’t tell anyone. Or at least not very many people until this week. Why reveal that now? Well, they wanted to quell the rumors swirling that the two companies were going to combine. Odd, I know. David Marshall explains why they kept quiet in Virtualization Report. Columnist’s corner: When you move to Office 2007 it will want more than just SharePoint Server 2007, as Oliver Rist points out in this week’s installment of Enterprise Windows. Think Project Server 2007 and Groove Server 2007. For now, Mr. Rist is focused on Project Server — two client versions and a server. There are issues, such as one that “makes Project Server cry like a little girl,” but overall “our lab experience ran nicely.” Best of the blogs: Stranded by proprietary software? Then you’re not alone. Matt Asay shares the saga of a CIO who is frustrated from seeing “exceptional technology locked up in a small company.” This is not merely emotional, either. “The problem is that this company is missing out on external development in its growth, and community continuation of the code beyond its corporate lifetime,” Asay writes in Great technology, crappy business model. The news beat: Oracle says it will unleash a Web 2.0 interface before month’s end. With the OS not already out the door, Microsoft is already plotting Vista’s first service pack. And Vodafone details a service that will enable users to profit from sharing videos. Technology Industry