Best of the blogs: Enterprise architects that don’t really get SOA still remain. “This is going to lead to many not finding the value within IT that they need, and their management demands,” David Linthicum explains in Thinking SOA? “It’s really a matter of thinking more about interoperable components, not layers and layers of technology. It’s really about thinking agility, and not just a technology solution instance. In other words, thinking SOA may need to leverage a different side of your brain when coming from a more traditional world.” The news beat: Microsoft is feeling the pressure as IBM says it will offer a version of the OpenOffice suite, dubbed Lotus Symphony, while Google adds a presentation application to its own suite, rechristened Google Docs. Mozilla spins off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a yet-to-be-named subsidiary it seeded with $3 million, a move closely mimicking how the Mozilla Foundation gave wing to Mozilla Corp. as the shepherd of Firefox. And Carl Icahn returns, this time he wants to sell BEA Systems, but the investor lacks enough shares and a BEA insider did not give much hope that he’d garner support from the board. Intel Developer Forum: Another IDF is upon us, and this time around Tom Yager is posing a tough inquiry. Does Intel have the guts? As in, will the leading chipmaker have the nerve, we know it has the wherewithal, but does it have the gumption to create the strongest x86 server market yet seen? “A changed game is inevitable for Intel in 2008. What’s in question is whether Intel will play a role in changing it,” Yager writes. “If Intel does one-up its rival next year, it will be a welcome turn of the tables. The fire would be lit under AMD for a change, and we’d discover what AMD is capable of when tasked to the limits of its capabilities.” Related: AMD tries to upstage Intel with triple-core Phenom processor. Video: Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris discusses Visualforce, platform-as-a-service, the struggle for customization, exposing code, Salesforce Ideas. “[Visualforce] is the crowning jewel that completes the picture, certainly from a development perspective, to be able to create those user interfaces on our platform without any infrastructure required.” InfoWorld editor-at-large Ephraim Schwartz hosts. Watch it here. Related: Is Salesforce planning to offer an online OS next? Technology Industry