Open source: After months of speculation that someone would swallow JBoss, Red Hat stepped up and acquired the open source Java middleware player this morning for $350 million in cash and stock. And executives from both companies stress their synergies. Hot review: Raritan’s CommandCenter NOC 250 has strong scanning capabilities, and “this first salvo is a good one, but not quite a bull’s-eye,” notes Paul Venezia. That said, Venezia finds it to be a useful network monitoring tool, if only for Windows environments. Best of the blogs: Jon Udell on how enterprise search could suck less. “Would it surprise you to learn that internal search sucks even at some companies whose business is search? It shouldn’t.” Hardware: Electrovaya may not be a household name, but the “small tablet-specific manufacturer seems to have climbed another rung on the tablet’s evolutionary ladder,” with the Scribbler SC-3100, writes Oliver Rist. The feature well: Most of us have “hacks” that help us get through our day-to-day computing chores. Whether it’s a custom macro or a special trick in Firefox, these duct-tape style workarounds enable us to jump the hurdles our PCs occasionally throw in our path. But what about on a larger scale? For an upcoming article, we’re looking for stories of what can only be described as “enterprise hacks.” Maybe it took a minor miracle to connect your legacy apps to your security infrastructure, but you pulled it off in an unexpected way. Perhaps you’ve got a trick that makes single sign-on a breeze, without spending a ton on custom software. Or you’ve got scripts that get your Web-based SaaS (software as a service) apps to accomplish things they were never meant to do. Whatever it is, we’d like to hear about it. Talkback via the comments function below, or send email to Neil McAllister (neil_mcallister@infoworld.com). If your hack makes the cut for our upcoming feature, you’ll win fame and fortune (and maybe a littleInfoWorld schwag, to boot). Technology Industry