Best of the blogs: While it’s “tempting to declare a full-on open source gold rush,” Brad Shimmin continues that most providers are not tapping traditional business models. ‘Rather, many of these vendors are looking to simplify and lower internal development costs, better support ISV partners, or just buy some street cred for solutions that would otherwise be considered frumpy by open source devotees.” The price is right: Next open source business model. Think of the band Radiohead and its recent posting of a new album and then letting listeners choose how much to pay. “It can and should be the same for open source customers, who should be given the opportunity to place some value upon the excellent software developed these days.” From the Test Center: OpenProj beta 4 is “generally stable software with extensive project scheduling and resource management capabilities,” Mike Heck writes in this preview of the product. What’s more, compared to Microsoft Project it’s tiny and runs fast. “With OpenProj’s free access, it’s just one more compelling case for going open source on the desktop.” Podcasts: Irony might be brewing in the storage cauldron as Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, though not in so many words, proclaimed the demise of disk storage. “The days of developing storage solutions independently of application servers are gone — at least at Sun, but other vendors take note.” Back to the aforementioned irony cookin’. Tape drives just might become, not right away but in time, mind you, the sole survivors of the storage years. Tune into Storage Sprawl. Careers: To hear Nick Corcodilos tell it, CIOs are worried about their jobs, and they ought to be. “Some IT pros are doing really well, and good for them, because they get it. The rest are sucking wind, because CIO’s can’t figure out what the CIO’s job is: to cultivate and inculcate IT workers with business savvy,” he writes in CIO punts to HR; IT loses. In other words, don’t tell HR to go find good people, “while you’re dissing older IT pros and failing to develop the kids [you] hire.” Technology Industry