Best of the blogs: “What’s better? A clear explanation that you don’t like, or one that is completely unclear?” Dave Rosenberg poses that question in this Open Sources post after spending more than an hour looking up information about obtaining a commercial license to use Sun components in the Mule distribution. No easy answers for this one. Platforms: Despite all the Windows Vista hoopla, Enterprise Mac author Tom Yager has remained faithful to his chosen platform. Until now, that is, as he directs testing hands toward Microsoft’s new OS. “If you came here looking for a satisfying slam of a Microsoft product, you might be disappointed. Or you might not. I’ll find what I find and relate it the way it strikes me at the moment,” he writes in Introducing the Vista Virgin, a Mac user’s journey into Microsoft’s new world. “I am operating from the standpoint of one who might consider switching from a Mac to Vista or adding Vista PCs to a Mac shop.” Columnist’s corner: When it comes to influence at technology vendors, enterprise IT shops have all the clout, right? Well, perhaps that is changing. “As high tech is lured to the mass market, enterprise customers will play second fiddle,” reports Ephraim Schwartz in High-tech’s consumer envy. But that’s not to say the trend, if you can even call it that, will last very long. “Many of these companies will come crawling back, wherein the new CEO, whoever he or she might be, will talk about returning to the fundamentals.” The news beat: Mikhail Gorbachev pens a letter to Bill Gates asking Microsoft’s chairman to aid in ending the trial of Aleksandr Ponosov, who could face up to five years in prison for software piracy. Hitachi Data Systems scoops up Archivas and its online storage management software. And at the RSA show Cisco details plans to enhance its range of security products by better integrating the technologies it has acquired over the years. Or, visit our Special Report: RSA Conference 2007. Technology Industry