Startups: To borrow a George Harrison album title and apply it toward our Month of Enterprise Startups, All Things Must Pass. And so it’s true that along with the month of May our series concludes today with Zenoss bringing open source to enterprise management. Bill Karpovich, co-founder and CEO explains that Zenoss open source network and system monitoring solution was born from the failure of IBM Tivoli at USi, an application service provider (and now a subsidiary of AT&T) where he and Zenoss inventor and CTO Erik Dahl used to work. Harrison’s music lives on via CD (and tape, album, memory, et. al) archives, likewise our Special Report, replete with slideshow of all the companies. Best of the blogs: It’s something of a cliche, perhaps, that old saw ‘teach what you know’. But, “as a lightweight way to steer my life in the direction of making some small positive difference I’m a pretty big fan of that phrase.” So begins John West in this Leading from the trenches post. “Teaching is the best way to learn, and your knowledge and skills are some of the most precious resources you can share with others.” The news beat: Alleged Spam King Robert Alan Soloway was arrested in Seattle and, as was his company Newport Internet Marketing, charged with mail fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. Dell opens a new R&D center in Bangalore, India to further its goal of making the country a hub for enterprise-class hardware development. And TurboLinux says it will launch Wizpy in June; the multimedia player contains a PC-bootable version of Linux. Notes from the field: Cringely may be the only guy who can come up with a headline like this one. Bill + Steve: the love that dare not speak its name. In which he compares the dynamic duo to other such pairs, namely Laurel and Hardy, and Martin and Lewis. The tech enemies shared a stage for the first time in a decade and, Cringe reports, “Jobs jabbed and Gates grinned uncomfortably.” What with George Lucas, Steve Case, John Chambers, John McCain and others also in the vicinity, Cringe writes, “I understand conference organizers were forced to rent an aircraft hangar to accommodate all the egos.” (Circling back to the first story in this post, Cringe links to a video of Gates and Jobs on stage in which Jobs concludes the segment by saying that, “I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or a Beatles song.”) Software Development