Best of the blogs: Hitting the links with Open Group CEO Allen Brown led David Linthicum to think about the discipline around enterprise architecture and SOA, and things the Open Group is doing in this realm, specifically. “The core issue here is driving this into the industry so that people think about it as a true professional organization,” Linthicum writes in this Real World SOA post. “This is really good for SOA as well, considering that there will be a common architecture framework around SOA, and standard frameworks and approaches.” Video: In The week ahead with Gina Smith, she discusses Google’s major overhaul of search, and previews the Semantic Web show, Interop and the Open Source Business Conference. Robert X. Cringely gets the last word. Watch it here. The news beat: IBM releases its Power6 processor and boasts that it’s the fastest chip yet for high-end servers. The Trusted Computing Group details a new specification that will enable products to integrate with Microsoft’s network access protection infrastructure. And Vodafone aims handsets at developing markets. Technology Industry