Podcasts: There seem to be two worlds, the enterprise architecture world … and the service-oriented architecture guys, David Linthicum explains. Both should happily collide because “in many instances there are procedures, notions and concepts around enterprise architecture that are really needed in SOA and, at the same time, service-oriented architecture needs to understand how to take these concepts and notions and mesh them with existing enterprise architecture today.” Tune into Real World SOA. Best of the blogs: Sacrificial chickens? Karmic rituals? Black art? Bob Lewis is nearly destroying his office (figuratively, of course) while taking on project estimation, or not. “My solution is to avoid estimating,” he offers. Instead, transform it into the computed cost of executing a plan. “Projects of any size and scope should always be about helping one or more parts of the business operate differently, not about delivering software that meets specifications.” The news beat: In an attack that began last evening, hackers bring two of the 13 ‘root’ servers managing the Internet’s DNS to a crawl, though they did not completely crash. Texas and Minnesota are considering a move to ODF, which would make them the second and third states to adopt the file format standard. And Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the Internet will continue to create public policy challenges as more people move online. Technology Industry