Best of the blogs: What with the SOA governance tool it released last week, Hewlett-Packard seems ready to battle the likes of IBM, Oracle and Tibco, David Linthicum explains in this Real World SOA post. Not so fast, though; HP has to straighten a few tactics out first. The starting points are a detailed product strategy, and a defined stack road map. “The issue here is that HP is rather big, and their SOA offering is rather small,” Linthicum adds. Startups: Nailing identity and access management, protecting against hackers and insider threats, all the while being able to pass external compliance audits is a daunting task for any IT shop. But Securent thinks it has a brand new approach. Securent takes access control to a new level. “We have a very distributed architecture that allows people to specify and configure entitlement policies in a central place to enforce them consistently over different applications and resources,” says Rajiv Gupta, co-founder and CEO. Related: Wage inflation sinks offshoring. Slideshow: The Ten Commandments of Blogs and Wiki Etiquette. Well, the title pretty much says it all, but here’s a taste. One is ‘Thou shall not confuse thy opinion with gospel truth’ and ‘Thou shall own up to thy mistakes’ is another. Watch it here. The news beat: While the U.S. FCC investigates the Google-DoubleClick acquisition for privacy and anticompetitive practice concerns, Google buys GreenBorder Technologies and its way into the antivirus fray. Garmin opens its GPS data to coders in hopes of making it easier to write applications that use the devices’ information. And BMC buys ProactiveNet to add its analytics software to BMC’s business service management roster. Technology Industry