Columnists’ Corner: Ephraim Schwartz goes star-gazing and finds that the Wintel duopoly is “suddenly pulling everything back into its orbit.” Apple. Palm. Sun. JBoss. Red Hat. Schwartz illuminates what it all means for IT in The industry cools down. Hot Review: Although not much has changed since our mammoth review of color printers last year, a few noteworthy models that strive to put out 36 to 40 pages per minute have emerged from Lexmark, Oki Printing, and Xerox. We look at those three in Color printers narrow the speed gap. Our previous printer roundup is here. Best of the blogs: Jon Udell examines objects, components and services in Superplatform politics, Greg Nawrocki espouses on IBM’s grid partnership with Univa, and Dave Linthicum asks Should you be a service archaeologist? Career track: Bob Lewis does his best to answer a reader’s question concerning the most effective ways to negotiate for a higher salary when offered a new job. Hint: He who offers the first number usually loses. The news beat: Sun and Google are hosting a news conference today that will include the CEO’s of both companies for what is being described as the unveiling of multiproduct collaboration, and Taiwan tells Google it is not a China province. Technology Industry