Podcasts: Jon Udell has a conversation with Frank Martinez about governance and tolerance. They also discuss social software, peer-to-peer, and identity policy. Best of the blogs: “We all know how fond Microsoft is of fobbing off support of its operating systems onto the computer manufacturers,” begins Ed Foster in Redmond runaround goes for PDAs, too. “But one reader recently discovered the same rules can apply with mobile devices and Windows Mobile 5.0.” Columnists’ corner: Looking for a recipe for career suicide? Start with a boss who believes function calls and DLLs are a foreign tongue, according to our Off The Record author. “Being better than your boss is not always good,” he writes. The news beat: Ubuntu makes its first foray into the datacenter with support for Sun’s Niagara-based servers. AMD says it will invest $2.5 billion into a German chip plant. And the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects Forgent’s claims, with which the company has asserted licensing rights related to the standard. Software Development