Best of the blogs: Virtualization is no longer about only server and storage consolidation but “more about the process change and cultural change,” says Gartner vice president Thomas Bittman, who adds that it will be the most important technology in IT infrastructures until 2010. David Marshall, in this post, also quotes Bittman as warning that, “virtualization without good management is more dangerous that not using virtualization in the first place.” Platforms: The third beta of Longhorn has Oliver Rist writing, “I can see it coming. Longhorn RTM, Longhorn shrink. Planning for Longhorn, installing Longhorn,” and so on. Oh, and one other thing Rist will have to face is “explaining to my mom why Longhorn has nothing to do with John Wayne.” The install itself was uneventful, so Rist uses this week’s Enterprise Windows to discuss the “stuff you’d better start boning up on now if it looks like Long is going to Horn in on your business in the semi-near-term future.” In that category lives QoS, NICs, TOE. “If you’re thinking that Longhorn and Vista were built on the same code base and you already know most of it — well, you’re wrong.” Q&A: Sun Microsystems has found that the first project to emerge from its open sourcing Java, GlassFish, is a lesson on how the model spurs innovation, according to Ken Drachnik, community development and marketing manager for Sun’s open source group. In this interview Drachnik also discusses how GlassFish works, the ways interest in it has grown, and how open sourcing Java can create technology that changes people’s lives. The news beat: Aiming to answer those industry folks that keep asking why it bought a storage company, Symantec points to rootkit technology as validation of its Veritas acquisition, insisting that the move armed it with a wealth of strategic opportunities. Microsoft says that interest in its Office Open XML format is continuing to grow, citing the more than 4 million downloads since November as evidence. And CEO Ed Zander says that Motorola is ready for Apple’s iPhone to enter its competitive fray, as his company readies a new high-end phone for introduction next week in Europe. Software Development