Open source: Red Hat, like many a company, could be doing more with its resources, including it’s brand. That sentiment comes from both Credit Suisse’s Jason Maynard and contributing editor Matt Asay, in Red Hat’s opportunity. In short: that involves the company expanding its footprint by acquiring the likes of Zimbra and others. “This may not be the time to be as prudent as Red Hat would like,” Asay writes. “Oracle is not sitting still. Neither is Microsoft.” The important thing, he adds, is for Red Hat to operate like it has to go it alone because, well, it does. The news beat: In hopes of preventing further delays, Microsoft cuts key server virtualization features out of the first public beta of its hypervisor technology, Viridian. The Free Software Foundation claims it will iron out incompatibilities with other free software licenses and organizations, including the Apache Software Foundation. And the Truste group says that because building trust in downloads is no easy matter it unveils a program to certify downloadable software and, in so doing, is forcing white list members to disclose the impact on users’ PCs.Columnist’s corner: Plenty of companies talk transparency, but hardly any actually walk the walk. “Imagine my shock the other day to receive a glossy, 32-page annual report in the mail from Intel. Not its corporate annual report, but its 2006 IT Performance Report,” David Margulius writes in Intel secrets revealed. “The report opens the kimono on how a large corporate IT organization operates and thinks about itself — making it a must-read for all top IT execs.” It’s available as a PDF right here. Technology Industry