Careers: Opening with a concession that sports metaphors are all too easy to use when writing about business and they’re also limited by nature, Bob Lewis nonetheless decides not to resist the temptation — if only because his wife’s cousin plays on the Green Bay Packers. What sparked Lewis was two Ryan Grant fumbles, both of which led to touchdowns by the Seattle Seahwaks. “American business wisdom says we need to hold people accountable — that there have to be consequences for mistakes,” Lewis asserts in Lessons from Lambeau. “American business wisdom is … wait, there’s a word for this and it will come to me … oh, now I have it … stupid.” Instead of benching Grant, the Packers kept giving him the ball, to the tune of three touchdowns and more than 200 yards rushing. “Somewhere, there just might be a lesson in this for IT leaders, in spite of it being something that happened in professional sports.” Best of the blogs: There’s a new way to follow the InfoWorld Test Center: our Twitter home page, which “tweets” every time a new preview, review or buyers’ guide comes out. The news beat: EMC says it will replace some disks with solid-state drives that use flash memory because they are generally faster and consume less power. Microsoft faces two new antitrust investigations by the European Commission; one concerns the interoperability of Windows, the other Microsoft’s practice of bundling products in with Windows. A study conducted by the Input Executive Forum found that systems integrators are worried about SOA because the paradigm could put them out of a job. And IBM expands Jazz ALM access and touts Project Bluegrass, an effort to bring the visual, collaborative nature of virtual worlds to software development. Save Windows XP. Sign the petition — and, as part of our effort, we’re encouraging IT pros and individuals to submit their own videos on why Microsoft should keep XP alive. Careers