Open source: Is open source automatically the best path to creativity and innovation? Savio Rodrigues takes exception with a recent article in Discover Magazine that concludes “that claim is not borne out by the facts. … Even though the open-source movement has a stinging countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force.” In his Open Sources blog Rodrigues writes “the conclusion is not that OSS projects don’t innovate. Rather, that projects that are truly innovative are developed by vendors whose benefactors (VCs or Wall St.) want the biggest bang for their investment. Ipso facto, closed source is usually the path taken in these situations. This has nothing to do with the type of innovation that OSS can deliver.”Blade servers: The power efficiency and savings on cooling costs that blade systems provide are now within reach of smaller datacenters, as vendors prime these servers for entry-level to midsize requirements and give them a more affordable price. HP’s BladeSystem c3000 is one of these new lean machines, and InfoWorld’s Test Center puts it through its paces. Its conclusion? “The HP c3000 is a hard-to-refuse alternative to filling your datacenter with more loose machines. Its comprehensive administrative tools make the system an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage proposition for small businesses and remote offices.” Read the full review. In the news: At next week’s Consumer Electronics Show Asus will unveil a laptop that comes with 1TB of storage space. The M70S is targeted at the fast-expanding multimedia sector of the laptop market. With its Swordfish project the Eclipse Foundation is developing an open source SOA framework for applications ranging from enterprise environments to embedded systems. The US-CERT is warning users of a possible problem with the latest version of RealPlayer. Technology Industry