Best of the blogs: Even if it is a vendor-sponsored study, and as such to be read with appropriate caution, Aberdeen’s report on the value of services-based software has some good information, David Linthicum writes in Real Word SOA. “Clearly, the notion of governance is sound, and you do indeed need to build some rigor around the design, development, testing, deployment, and management of services,” he explains. Notes from the field: Skeptical readers wrote into Robert X. suggesting that perhaps Thomas Forqueran — you know, the guy whose vintage pickup was burned to a crisp by a Dell laptop — is actually an auto arsonist. “That dog won’t hunt,” Cringe insists in Keep on truckin’. The 1966 pickup was not easy to replace, for starters, and Mr. Forqueran was in the middle of nowhere. “If Forqueran is a con man I’ll eat my hat, with a side dish of crow.” Columnist’s corner: Fresh from the Web 2.0 Expo where he sat in on a session about taxonomy, David Margulius notes of the people who perform taxonomy, “those meticulous creatures are running scared because of the Web 2.0 development known as tagging … Should enterprises care? Yes,” Margulius writes. For a whole host of reasons, to be certain. Corporate librarian replaced by Web app. Related: IT can’t stop Web 2.0, and InfoWorld’s ongoing coverage from the expo. From the Test Center: Desktop virtualization is maturing into a two-horse race. In this case, Randall Kennedy is referring to “the deployment of corporate applications and data within discrete VM images that then run independently on a host-client system.” He looks insdie Kidaro and Sentillion. “Both provide a variety of additional unique and highly innovative features that differentiate their products from the more basic VMware offering, and also from each other.” Read the full review. Technology Industry