Best of the blogs: And that applies to more than just software. At least according to Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL. Think eBay, Google, Skype and YouTube. Open source in and of itself, though, is not a business model, he says. But as Matt Asay points out, “it does nudge the vendor one direction or another.” Quoteworthy: There was, and still is, no such thing as an IT impulse buy, a system purchase or a switch in suppliers driven by the emergence of a new or updated CPU architecture. Indeed, institutional buyers are still unmoved by that great obsession of punditry, market share. It delights me whenever tech industry oddsmakers’ projections, always presented with such certainty, are made hollow by the market that these pundits fancy themselves driving rather than watching. — Tom Yager. The two technology markets. Q&A: Google product manager Nathan Stoll defends the Google News practice of indexing media content, sans permission. In this interview with the IDG News Service, Stoll also discusses plans for video news and social networking sites. Security: Microsoft could fulfill security dreams with NAP, or, then again, perhaps not. At Interop this week were, “Cisco, Juniper, and Microsoft clearly showing that endpoint security solutions can talk to each other if only they’d try,” writes Oliver Rist in this installment of Enterprise Windows. Third-party providers have a fighting chance for the next year or so, but they’ll have to deliver better management interfaces, better support for transient clients, much better support for unmanaged clients, and support from all the best anti-virus/anti-malware engines. “Just a few of the things on my endpoint wish list, and they’d better be there a year from now or the Redmondian version really will be a foregone conclusion.” Technology Industry