Best of the blogs: When it come to SOA we like hype more than reality, asserts David Linthicum, and that is particularly true of Oracle’s acquisition bid for BEA Systems. BEA, of course, has been an SOA player, so the purchase, if it happens, would effect certain aspects of service-oriented architecture, he explains in this Real World SOA post. Then again, some truths will remain. “SOAs are architectures, and not products. So, no matter how much technology is acquired and put into an offering, that does not make it an architecture that you can buy,” Linthicum explains. “No one size fits all, sorry to break that to you … again.” Green IT: When a major investment bank, in this case Sanford Bernstein, publishes a 48-page report highlighting IT’s role in slowing global warming, you know that there’s still plenty of room to make money, Bill Snyder reports in Green capitalism grows up. Throw Wall Street into that mix and it “creates a basketful of money-making opportunities for investors and jobs for IT workers eager to make a difference.” The news beat: Several U.S. states request a five-year extension of the antitrust ruling against Microsoft, arguing that Microsoft could reap the continued dominance of IE to choke other emerging technologies. Sun Microsystems is reworking the Java plug-in technology in Java SE 6. Hewlett-Packard details its Secure Print Advantage for protecting against malware and making sure documents get to the intended people. And Google talks up its health initiative. Technology Industry