Open source: Analyst house Forrester issued a report suggesting that open source may fall victim to its own success, but Matt Asay asserts otherwise. “Open source is not a mask that one can don and pretend to be someone/thing else,” he writes. Ingres, meanwhile, says it is at work on a software appliance, due later this year, that will enable customers to virtualize database instances on Linux.Quoteworthy: There is one area where the DOS era’s ‘I own the whole system’ attitude persists, and it’s a virtualization millstone: device drivers. You may not realize how ugly the problem and present solution are, or how simple and elegant the real solution will be. — Tom Yager. Virtualization and I/O. Storage: EMC joins up with NEC to build and sell storage products based on the recently announced Storage Bridge Bay technology, which aims to drive standardization in external disk subsystems. Security: New York Attorney general Eliot Spitzer asks a court to bar Direct Revenue from installing anymore spyware or sending ads through existing spyware. The news beat: As part of its Veritas acquisition, Symantec reorganizes its executive ranks and names a new CTO. An Oracle official says that PeopleSoft and Siebel customers are happy, at least based on renewal rates. And Microsoft taps partners for Office Live applications. Technology Industry