Podcasts: One might think that companies selling service-oriented architecture wares would be appropriate teachers of the technology. Not necessarily so. “This is a huge issue, as I see it, in the adoption of SOA. Since the vendors have put so much money and time on pushing and hyping so much they tend to miss the bigger picture of what an SOA is and the value that it has within their customer organizations,” David Linthicum explains. “Ultimately this is hurting the adoption of service-oriented architecture.” Tune into The SOA Report. Columnist’s corner: Every once in a while the danger of suggesting radical change carries more burden than having to actually execute your own idea. Our Off the Record author learned that the hard way after accepting a new gig at a non-profit hospital. First, the CFO thought a $22,000 cost-justification for new hardware was ludicrous. But then that same CFO thought about it a bit more…Applications: The recent executive shakeup at SAP, in which Shai Agassi left, “underscored the frayed nerves in the corporate boardroom of many leading ERP vendors,” writes Ephraim Schwartz in Does ERP matter? Schwartz posed the question to industry analysts. The consensus: Yes, just not as much as it once did. The news beat: Salesforce.com buys Koral and, in so doing, steps into the content management fold. Iona acquries LogicBlaze, an open source SOA company. Sohu threatens to sue Google for violating its intellectual property rights. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, meanwhile, says it will file two complaints against China regarding copyright enforcement and trade barriers. And Apache battles Sun over Java license. Technology Industry