Best of the blogs: Think you need to insure your software license? If not, you might want to read the fine print. One reader, in fact, discovered a clause stating that lost or stolen software licenses incur replacement costs of 80 percent of the original purchase price. What’s more, the company suggested that customers insure licenses against theft, loss and damage. “When you think about it, maintenance really is supposed to be a form of insurance for the customer. If it’s not, what is it?” asks Ed Foster in ‘Wondering about maintenance plus insurance’. Hot review: While there is nothing easy about backups, Symantec and Zantaz each offer products designed to simplify large-scale backups and archiving of those countless emails end-users hate to delete. “Either solution is likely to give you a handle on archiving,” points out Logan Harbaugh. There are, naturally, differences between the two, but I’ll not spoil the ending. Storage: A whole host of new products is ushering in the serial attached SCSI era, but some confusion lingers still among storage administrators and the IT bosses who support them. To clear the air, Mario Apicella lists 4 nuggets about SAS worth remembering. “Don’t you love when a new technology moves from the drawing board to becoming real products? That is finally happening with SAS,” Apicella explains. Security: Apple’s recent security vulnerabilities are causing far more hype than they deserve, writes Tom Yager in OS X security flaws: Much ado about nothing. Instead, all the buzz is being driven by security vendors. “It only takes one touch of truth to show this manufactured tempest for what it is,” Yager insists. “This is an opportunity to educate and enlighten; but it is no crisis, no fall of the mighty.” The news beat: Germany joins the call to end Google’s free ride on high-speed Internet infrastructure, JBoss scoops up German services partner Objectone to establish a stronger presence in that country, and political rivals unite against AOL and Yahoo, who plan to charge fees to mass e-mailers. Software Development