Best of the blogs: As the term becomes more ubiquitous in the technology realm, Ephraim Schwartz reminds us that “it’s important to remember the concept of globalization does not simply refer to companies with worldwide reach … Rather, it represents a complete cross-fertilization where companies have global integration of their workforces, their markets and perhaps over time, their identities.” Globalization takes on a new look. “It boils down to an execution play. The U.S. companies seeking out India and the Indian companies coming here understand their respective strengths. Some will pull it off, but some endeavors will turn out so disastrous that they will become the stories of legend of what can go wrong.” Columnist’s corner: With a solid three weeks before Leopard comes and both an Xserve and Mac Pro waiting for it, Tom Yager is looking toward the next best thing to OS X. “As an aside, when I broach this subject, I always draw comments from readers who tell me that dude, if I want to run OS X on an AMD machine, it can be done,” he writes. Back to that OS X alternative. “While Solaris has none of the no-brainer usability and manageability of OS X client and server OSes, I’m finding Solaris to be an increasingly comfortable workmate with enough similarities to OS X to deserve some attention.”Notes from the field: Nearly echoing Warren Zevon, Cringe titles his latest Lawyers, guns and the RIAA. “Apparently somebody at the RIAA really believes the cliche that there is no such thing as bad press. That somebody is a dumbass,” he writes. “What really tweaks me is the RIAA argument that file swapping steals money out of artists’ pockets. The notion that someone who downloaded 1000 songs from Kazaa would have otherwise paid $990 for them on iTunes (or dropped $10,000+ to get the same songs on CD) is flat-out stupid.” Video: What are startups’ dream employees really like? It’s a pertinent question that Bill Snyder addresses by going right to the source: C-level execs at six fledgling companies. Answers range widely, but motivation and passion for technology and growing companies, not to mention hard tech skills, come up in multiple conversations. Oh yes, and “we are really in the age of rich Internet applications.” Watch it here. Related: Where the jobs are: Hot startups for techies. Technology Industry