Columnists’ Corner: No job is secure. Offshoring and the Internet have essentially rendered any notion of job security obsolete. Our IT Off the Record writer tells of how one Oracle DBA lost her job and what she did to land on her feet. Best of the blogs: Ed Foster discusses the prevalence of software vendors not delivering on promises, Bob Lewis provides advice on dealing with an employee more interested in receiving a promotion than actually earning it, and Jon Udell writes about armchair software theorist Steve Gundrum’s food R&D company, and how it applies to application development. The news beat: Borland upgrades its IDE under increasing competition from open source tools, CA details new iteration of BrightStor, Sun plans Galaxy launch for next week, and multinational companies are giving India a run for its offshoring money. Quoteworthy: “It all sounds so corporate, so un-open source. But really it’s not. In fact, a trademarked Linux “brand” may have been inevitable. If the open source community is to maintain equal footing with the commercial entities that stand to profit from Linux, it needs to play by the same rules they do. That means using the same tools they do, including software licenses, trademarks, and — if Open Source Development Labs has its way — even patents. If it helps the Linux developer community gain a seat at the grown-ups’ table, $200 per license is a pittance.” — Neil McAllister in Open Enterprise. Technology Industry