Best of the blogs: Cathleen Moore depicts the human and cultural roadblocks that are becoming associated with SOA. Among those: getting buy-in from the business side, aligning business and IT goals, and precisely outlining requirements. Open source: While others scoff at Computer Associates spinning off Ingres as a company, Matt Asay welcomes Ingres back to the realm in Finally, a real database market. “You’ve been missed,” he notes. Columnists’ Corner: The raging debate about office document formats misses the point that both Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer “are archaic solutions to the real needs being articulated by the likes of Massachusetts and the European Union,” opines Jon Udell. In Beyond office document formats, he explains that both impose heavy download, installation and support burdens on those who use them. After we establish an open document format we’ll be able to move onto the real challenges. Hot review: ActiveBatch 5.0 from Advanced Systems Concepts Incorporated (ASCI) is “the ETL tool of the operating system world,” according to reviewer Sean McCown. It runs scheduled OS jobs from any server. Installation is easy. The only problem in our testing arose when executing certain types of legacy jobs. Technology Industry