Special report: There is no denying the virtues of open source in the enterprise, but that’s not to say there are no risks either. In this package, we examine how open source demands new buying strategies of IT, the frustration that drove Owens Forest Products to open source, MITs use of free software to tie heterogeneous systems together, the ways in which Christian Science Monitor seeks closer technology relationships, and several more case studies. The collection also features this Q&A with Tim Bray, Sun’s director of Web technologies. Podcasts: Bob Garza is at it again. This time, he’s chatting it up with Mark Upton and Gregory Wood from BioPassword regarding their new keyboard authentication solution. Find the podcast at his Zero Day blog. Columnists’ corner: Microsoft joined the OpenDocument standards subcommittee but, as Neil McAllister points out, “Redmond hasn’t done an about face. You still won’t be seeing an OpenDocument filter added to Microsoft Office.” Speculators suggest that the standardization effort will be harder with Microsoft in the mix, but McAllister says OpenDocument is not a lost cause. Screencasts: In The Screening Room, episode 3, Jon Udell delves into Microsoft’s forthcoming AJAX toolkit, Atlas. “It remains to be seen how widely it will be adopted by non-ASP.NET folk, but the Atlas crew seem to have done a nice job of encapsulating dependencies and carving out a component model.” Best of the blogs: Gripe Line author Ed Foster has caught the podcast fever. “I’ve always believed that the most important voice in what I write is that of my readers; now podcasting gives me the opportunity to have the ‘Reader Voices’ actually be audible,” Foster explains. Read more about this at his blog. Technology Industry