Best of the blogs: IT shops are not buying into VM as a desktop replacement, Randall Kennedy explains in ACE, VDI and other dumb ideas. “Customers were burned once already by the server-based computing fiasco, so they’re understandably skittish about any solution that purports to replace the desktop with ‘something better.’ The ‘something,’ as they’ve discovered, is rarely ‘better,’ and ACE/VDI is no exception.” Sustainable IT: At first glance (and perhaps second and third…) those bland power strips in your datacenter might not resemble the sleek Italian roadster of your dreams, but Ted Samson conjures the similarities in ColdWatt powers energy-efficient servers. Think I’m bluffing? “For a power supply (or a fuel injector) to elicit that level of excitement, it has to be especially interesting. (They even look boring. Maybe a racing stripe would help.),” Samson writes. “These days, anything that can significantly cut the costs of keeping your server room cool and humming is quite interesting indeed.” I’ll second that. The news beat: Mozilla fixes flaws in Firefox and SeaMonkey that allowed uniform resource identifiers in image tags to be executed even if JavaScript was disabled. The Eclipse Foundations’ executive director scolded Microsoft for not working toward interoperability with Eclipse’s open source technologies. Oracle, meanwhile, boosted its role in the Eclipse community by making its entire TopLink Java framework freely available and proposing the EclipseLink project. And HP continues to run by Dell in PC sales. Software Development