Careers: The so-called Great Talent Shortage of skilled IT workers is not all it’s cracked up to be. Instead, the situation invokes George Carlin’s paradox of where to put everything in the world if you could have it, as Nick Corcodilos relates that to resume banks. “The problem starts at the top, with the board of directors: that corporate crew responsible for long-term governance and policy. I wonder what they see from up there,” Corcodilos writes in this Ask the Headhunter post. “We don’t have no stinking talent shortage.” Video: Executive editor Eric Knorr speaks with Andrew Nash, who is currently CTO of a stealth security startup, but was previously with RSA Security and Reactivity about how XML and identity are changing. “We can’t rely on just session-based context and identity anymore, we have to carry the security information … with the message itself.” Watch the interview here. The news beat: Microsoft pledges to support OpenID and, as such, will integrate it with CardSpace to help reduce man-in-the-middle attacks. IBM adds incentives it hopes will encourage partners to use its open source low-end WebSphere application server and DB2 Express-C database. EMC agrees to acquire Valyd Software, an Indian security company. And a consumer group lashes out against Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ DRM letter. Best of the blogs: A nasty flu has Sean McCown thinking about ‘lights out database management.’ You know, those questions to answer beforehand so that when you do have to take a sick day you won’t return to systems that have blown up in your absence. Careers