Best of the blogs: The advantages of injecting SaaS with virtualization are so significant that no provider will be able to compete without doing so, according to one executive who happens to work for a virtualization company. That, however, “doesn’t negate the fact that I believe his points are valid and hold true — that virtualization does indeed offer significant benefits, flexibility and efficiency to the SaaS world,” writes David Marshall in Why virtualization plays an important role in SaaS. Think provisioning, density, isolation, service levels, among others. Open source: The Linux Kernel SCSI Maintainership’s gatekeeper says the group ‘won’t bother’ with GPLv3 due to a lack of compelling advantages and the thousands of folks who would have to sign off on changes. Microsoft, meanwhile, states that it is not a party to GPLv3. The news beat: Even though the original has only been available for one week now, attention turns toward a second-gen iPhone which, Apple claims, will harness 3G wireless networks for faster performance. A talking Trojan taunts victims while trying to delete everything from the hard drive. And solar Web hosting company Affordable Internet Services Online has been chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend’s Live Earth concerts from its 100 percent solar-powered hosting facility. Software Development