Video: BT has some lofty ambitions: to be 100 percent SOA by the year after next. Eric Knorr chats with BT’s chief architect George Glass about the company’s goal, and how it got from a customer-oriented architecture to service-oriented. “Using the elements of reuse, what we actually see is a dollar and cents benefit,” Glass explains. Watch SOA for the customer’s sake here. The news beat: Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says that open source and Microsoft are actually on the same side of the software patent issue. 3Com offers cheap IPS gateways. Google suggests an ad-like auction for U.S. spectrum in a filing made to the FCC. And Moore’s Law meets Gore’s Law at the Microprocessor Forum 2007. Startups: MuleSource is striving to bring flexibility, speed and low cost to large-scale integration. “Enterprise software has failed completely in this spot,” insists Dave Rosenberg, MuleSource CEO and, I should point out, an InfoWorld blogger. “Here you have something that’s crucial to the business and you need a huge level of customization. But you can’t get that with a proprietary vendor.” Read the full story, and view the Month of Enterprise Startups slideshow. Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely throws in his two cents regarding the Linux users who are inviting a lawsuit from Microsoft. In Be the first on your block to be sued by Microsoft, Cringe paints a new picture of the company’s CEO. “Imagine Steve Ballmer as a Bond villain, wearing a monocle and stroking a white cat.” What it all really means, though, is that “for the first time since DOS 2.0, Microsoft may have a real operating system fight on its hands.” Technology Industry