Podcasts: Jon Udell talks with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software, about open source databases, Kingsley’s vision of a continuum of Web data access strategies, and a Web-enabled virtual Spotlight. Quoteworthy: This case is seminal for the IT industry. The interoperability the [European] Commission is demanding from Microsoft will allow the industry to return to the sort of cooperation that existed in the 1990s. Cooperation is the norm. — Andrew Tridgell. Samba creator refutes Microsoft claims in EU case. Security: The second bug this week is discovered in IE. A British fugitive hacker facing extradition for breaking into military computers points out that most enterprises simply do not take easy steps to prevent intruders. Such as turning PCs off at night. Meanwhile, a blogger posts a trick for dismantling Microsoft’s built-in antipiracy checker for Windows XP. The news beat: Pirates steal NEC’s corporate identity and then use it to sell NEC-branded products, some of which the company does not even manufacture in the first place. Qualcomm, in a WiMax licensing pact with Soma Networks, challenges the WiMax market and asserts that it will enforce its patents. Software Development