Test Center review: “Fair Isaac’s Blaze Advisor and ILOG’s JRules are the longtime leaders in enterprise BRMS (business rule management system). JRules has always played catch-up to Blaze Advisor on rule building and management, but has led Blaze in speed. Now, as each reach version 6, JRules has some advantages in rule management and Blaze Advisor has turned on the after-burners, surpassing JRules in performance,” writes James Owen. Having stacked the two up against each other, ringing all the bells and blowing the whistles, Owen determines that the better pick depends on your exact needs. Read the full review. Podcasts: David Marshall shares his disbelief of sorts about how quickly virtualization is becoming a commodity — and discusses VMware Server and Microsoft Virtual PC, both of which recently became available free of charge. Listen to Virtualization Report. Best of the blogs: “It’s never fun when a product arrives without the drivers you need to make it work. But one reader recently discovered it can be a particular problem when the product is from Umax.” Thus begins Ed Foster in the aptly-titled Driver education from Umax. Moral: “If you are a public institution without credit cards DON’T buy a UMAX product unless you are prepared to deal with a hassle,” one reader wrote. Software Development