Thus far this week has seen a few interesting pieces across the IT and business media landscape. First up, Charles Babcock at InformationWeek argues that theorizing the big vendors will eventually own the cloud is premature. He provides some interesting point-counterpoint from himself and other media colleagues here.

Coming off Independence Day, this week has seen an active news cycle in tech, led by Microsoft announcing a significant reorganization of the software giant around “One Microsoft”. All Things D takes a look at what it all means here, while InformationWeek takes a bigger picture look here.

You’ve heard our founder Adam Jacob talk about it before – software is increasingly becoming the delivery platform for goods and services in today’s economy. So, it only makes sense that companies would want to leverage SaaS to extend customer service capabilities, shorten customer feedback loops, and provide a better overall customer experience.

I’m very happy and quite proud to announce the successful deployment of erchef on Hosted Chef this week. Getting erchef into Hosted Chef has been a long and challenging project involving a good chunk of Opscode’s engineers.

We continue our weekly(ish) series of blogs consolidating interesting and relevant news for all of you in the Community today with a few varied articles: Still looking for ways to keep your adolescent or teen busy this summer?

A new week and a new #ChefTalks video about the awesomeness our customers are achieving w/Chef.

At organizations from Fortune 100 enterprises to Web 2.0 startups, IT is transitioning from a back office support function to a front office imperative as the primary delivery platform for goods, services, and customer engagement.

It’s been an interesting news cycle so far this week. Besides our friends at Cumulus Networks coming out of stealth with the first-ever Linux OS for networking and Velocity 2013 kicking off with some excitement, there have been a number of other notable happenings to keep up with, as well.

A cool new approach to networking has emerged today as our friends at Cumulus Networks emerged from stealth-mode to unveil the first Linux OS for datacenter networking. GigaOM had this to say: “Super-stealthy startup Cumulus Networks has launched with what could be a hot property in the burgeoning world of open networking gear.