SOA: Oracle and Gartner foreshadowed what they expect to be the next-generation of service-oriented architecture, and gave it a name: SOA 2.0. Oracle is using the term to describe the combination of SOA and event-driven architecture, terminology that a Gartner analyst nearly echoed, explaining that event-driven architecture distinguishes SOA 2.0 from the initial, client-server driven fashion of SOA. Test Center review: Fonality’s Asterisk PBXtra is a feature-rich PBX appliance that carries an ASP management tool. “A smaller-sized company can be up and running quickly and at a very reasonable price. Yes, you could get a server and download Asterisk for less money, but you’d have to do the work yourself, and that may not be easy,” explains Wayne Rash. Not to say it won’t cut it in larger shops, just that it would require plenty of PBX hardware. Hardware: “Apple’s new 13-inch widescreen MacBook in black has road warrior written all over it. But perhaps more interesting is that it will, for the first time, put a Mac notebook at near price parity with closely equipped Wintel laptops,” writes Mike Barton, in MacBook: price parity a first? Applications: SAP unwrapped a new on-demand, on-premise version of its CRM suite, which will include new sales and marketing applications, and upgraded its ERP with more than 300 enhancements. The news beat: VeriSign drops $125 million to purchase SSL vendor GeoTrust and its extensive reseller channel. Yahoo executives say it will focus on social search, user content and reaching beyond the PC. And Samsung shows a prototype hard-disk drive that improves notebook computer perofrmance by reducing disk activity, which, in turn, also extends battery life. Technology Industry