Best of the blogs: It could not have been said the same way five years ago, but Microsoft must now live by open source’s rules, or suffer, Matt Asay paraphrases MySQL CEO Marten Mickos. “Imagine a world where Microsoft is an island of proprietary software, surrounded by the real world of web sites, business applications, etc. that all run open source software,” Asay writes in this Open Sources post. “Five years ago, it was open source that was accused of being religious. Now it’s Microsoft.” Special report: Day three, here, of our 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25 awards. This morning’s batch brings five new winners, including Jeremiah Grossman, founder and chief technology officer of White Hat Security, which in his words aims to “test what matters most: production code.” Read the profile of Grossman, or view the slideshow with all those we’ve revealed thus far. The news beat: IBM buys Watchfire for its Web application security products. Google kept its own acquisition streak alive by gobbling up Peakstream, which develops software for multicore and parallel processors. ARM’s CEO says that the iPhone will ignite smartphone use. And Adobe aligns with Kinko’s in a pact the companies claim will enable users to electronically send documents to stores for printing. Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely is going ape over evolution. Rest assured, Cringe’s blog is not taking on an Earth sciences tone. “Naturally, some [readers] told me to stick to technology and leave religion and politics alone,” he writes. “I think IT touches everything.” In this particular case, he’s talking science and education. “Our next philosophical question: If a man speaks in a forest and his spouse isn’t there to hear him, is he still wrong?” Technology Industry