Quoteworthy: Ask any — and I mean any of the new school SaaS companies what they built their sites on and 99 percent will tell you it’s all open source — primarily LAMP. (BTW, if you built on Windows just stop now. The costs will sink you as you scale.) Ask them if they pay for support and the response is less than 20 percent by my informal research. I do think that SaaS is a great delivery model and I am glad these guys are consuming open source to build their businesses. But, it’s hard to see how the majority of the companies on display at Dreamforce will build sustainable revenue outside of the Salesforce.com — Dave Rosenberg, SaaS vs. open source: open source will win. Disagree? Think it’s an unfair comparison? Talkback below or at the prior link. Hardware: Intel is not setting AMD’s agenda anymore, Tom Yager explains. “AMD has outgrown Intel. Hardware and software vendors that utilize AMD platforms are now steering AMD’s strategy. AMD is all about giving OEMs and ISVs what they want, and that’s precisely the approach that originally put Intel on top,” he writes in AMD leads by listening. AMD “will march to the drumbeat of IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Sun, and the handful of others who are probably a bit shocked to see so much of what they asked for in Barcelona.” Notes from the field: The venerable Robert X. Cringely reports that TD Ameritrade has been caught with its breaches down. Some six million customer records, in fact, have been exposed. “While Ameritrade assures us ‘there is no evidence’ customers’ birthdates and Social Security numbers were taken, this doesn’t mean they weren’t — it just means Ameritrade isn’t aware of it.” Yet. The news beat: Intel says a version of Centrino with WiMax will arrive in 2008, though Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple have yet to pledge support. SAP gives its suite of hosted ERP a name, Business ByDesign, and reveals pricing. Google tests its Gadget ads service, which enables customers to build ads with audio, video, live data feeds, Flash and JavaScript that ultimately resemble small Web pages with a Web page. And hacker David Maynor publishes the technical exploits of his Apple Wi-Fi attack. Technology Industry