Columnist’s corner: In Open Enterprise’s swan song, Neil McAllister makes a prediction. “It’s going to be a banner year for open source.” So why end the series now? “Simply put, the discussion around open source has grown far beyond the ability of a weekly column to encapsulate it all.” Notes from the field: “Suing Microsoft for deceptive marketing is like suing Paris Hilton for being blonde,” Cringe writes in Vista: Thy name is FUD. “From Microsoft’s perspective, the fear is whether Vista will be remembered as the beginning of the fall of the Redmond Empire.” From the feature well: IT can tap consumer-oriented technologies to make the company more collaborative and productive. To wit, we take a look at a fistful of consumer tech winners so IT shops can capitalize on the ongoing Web 2.0 adoption curve, in What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies. Think Tivo, YouTube. Oh yes, and there’s one dud in there, too. Best of the blogs: Paul Venezia cuts to the heart of the new iPod virus matter. “If it has a CPU, hackers will try to break it, and virus writers will try to write a virus for it,” he explains. Aiming to dispel the myth that Macs are not a target due to lower market share, he wonders, “given that most virus authors and hackers are in it for the ego, don’t you think that there would be a huge incentive to be the first one to write a widespread OS X, Linux, or FreeBSD virus?” Technology Industry