Search: Ostensibly undaunted by the lawsuit against rival Google for taking a similar tack, Microsoft’s MSN unit is planning to digitize and index books for search purposes. Whereas Google has gone it alone, Microsoft is joining an industry coalition, the Open Content Alliance, which is building a digital archive of published materials that respect copyrights and will ensure no commercial company will own printed intellectual property. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, meanwhile, said that the lawsuit his company is facing over its similar Print initiative is routine. Grid Computing: Sun is struggling with grid computing right out of the starting gate. The problems, according to Dave Rosenberg, are that Sun is having a hard time winning customers and even more difficulty persuading those customers that do exist to go on record about it. That said, Rosenberg appreciates and subscribes to Sun’s utility model; he just won’t pay for it. Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis offers some advice on what to do when you’re not just paranoid, but the victim of a secret campaign against you. Hot review: Heroix explores new territory with Longitude. This systems management software is an “ambitious product that suffers from an overly optimistic communications manager and lack of configurability,” a problem that the company could solve with its next version. In the meantime, though, it offers rapid deployment and easy maintenance. Technology Industry