Best of the blogs: The notion that SOA is currently making more sense to business than it is to IT is gaining steam. Likewise, it follows that IT is actually inhibiting SOA, though it’s not categorical pushback, David Linthicum writes, just caution around the issues. “I spend more time going after hearts and minds than pushing the technology and approach,” he adds. “The technology is easy, hearts and minds are not.” Sustainable IT: While the U.S. government sets high standards for hardware makers, IT vendors such as Dell, IBM and HP “have been raising that bar even higher, scrutinizing not only suppliers’ materials and manufacturing processes, but their overall environmental practices,” reports Ted Samson in Green demands trickle down the supply chain. But “efforts to green the supply chain aren’t just to satisfy the IT vendors.” Live Chat: Conference organizer and InfoWorld blogger Matt Asay is holding a discussion today at 11 PST, in the open source chat room of IT Exec-Connect, where he’ll share the inside scoop on next week’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), and address hot topics of the day, such as Microsoft’s latest wrangling. (Free registration required.) The news beat: The soon-to-be-approved GPL v3 could complicate Microsoft’s patent claims and, at the very least, it raises questions about the company’s deal with Novell. Google moves to what it calls ‘universal’ search, or the integration of results from its specialty engines so users won’t have to run the same query multiple times. And Oracle takes a stake in IP management company Sophoi. Technology Industry