Best of the blogs: Invoking the Mohandas Gandhi quote that has become something of an open source rallying cry, Matt Asay proclaims that open source applications have officially entered the ‘laughing stage.’ And then he becomes serious. “Laugh while you can. Better get ready to fight. Because we’re planning to win.” Columnists’ corner: Apple’s Boot Camp gets Tom Yager off the hook. With that free time, Yager expounds on the various groups that are perfect fits to use Boot Camp, the situations in which it will come in handy, and explains its forthcoming time bomb. Podcasts: Listen to Oliver Rist discuss what makes Centrino a worthwhile investment for notebooks, and his juicy rantings about Microsoft’s rootkit stance in the newest Emerging Enterprise Podcast. Quoteworthy: Why are a bunch of academics who study logistics interested in influenza, you ask? Well, if you think H5N1 is tough on chickens, you should see what it will do to your supply chain! — Paul Roberts. Supply chain management and the end of the world. The news beat: Oracle plunks down $220 million to buy Portal Software and its billing and revenue management products. Sun pulls the wrapping off of new thin clients and its second server based on the Niagara chip. And China Unicom christens its new push e-mail service ‘RedBerry’ — after the company’s new logo, (and presumably not having anything to do with the color typically tied to communism). Technology Industry