Columnist’s corner: While simultaneously preparing for backlash, David Margulius makes a suggestion: Open the floodgates to IT immigration. Think fast-track citizenship. “Let’s roll out the red carpet and try to get as many developers coming to the United States as the total number of people who normally enter the country each year. If they prove they can code, let’s give them immediate citizenship, free food, coupons for free movie rentals, whatever, to get them to come and stay.” Radical, indeed, Margulius admits. “The United States isn’t growing enough technologists organically through our education system to compete, so let’s acquire and assimilate them.” From the Test Center: You can’t call Silver Peak the new kid on the block any longer, Keith Schultz insists, because the WAN acceleration and optimization vendor, “raised the bar with its NX-5500 appliance. Targeting WAN speeds up to DS3, it delivers superior raw performance over varying WAN conditions.” Schultz adds that the NX-5500 performs like one of the best he’s ever tested. “The TCP and UDP support is first rate, providing all traffic types excellent acceleration and optimization.” There is a shortcoming, though. Read the full review. The news beat: Sun details ‘Project Indiana’ and plans to mimic the Linux distribution model to grow the market for Solaris. Oracle says it will release 46 security patches next week that span its database, application server and e-business suite. VeriSign’s CFO resigns while the company announces it will restate earnings from 2002 to 2005. And scrutiny mounts for Google security. Technology Industry