Special Report: Stick it to Spyware examines 10 offerings from the likes of Computer Associates, McAfee, Trend Micro and others. This package also includes stories on Countering Spyware, and how Spyware slips through the patches. Q&A: Jon Udell keeps the podcasts from PDC coming. Today, it’s a chat he had with Anders Hejlsberg and Paul Vick about the LINQ project. Show of the week: At Oracle OpenWorld, the database and applications company is detailing plans to reorganize its lineup and integrate newly-acquired companies. The news beat: SAP plans to swallow Triversity, a Canadian company that specializes in retail software. Cisco looks out for the little guy with IP telephony and wireless LAN suites built for SMBs. And the NSF, in conjunction with Iowa State University, is building a new cybersecurity center that will research near-term issues, wireless security, and possibly methods to comply with federal regulations, e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley. Best of the blogs: Two questions arise today among our fleet of bloggers. Dave Linthicum asks Could external SOAs outpace internal SOAs? And Mario Applicella poses the question Are you ready for StorageWorks APP IQ? The former looks at how the ASP model Salesforce.com and NetSuite are succeeding with could become the norm for SOAs, while the latter takes on HP’s acquisition of the storage management software vendor. Technology Industry