Eric Lundquist

I did a video commentary for eWeek from Newport recently while I was down there attending the annual APC editorial confab. The lead story in the Providence Journal was about $4 gas and accompanying articles were about the rising costs of food and nearly everything else in our petro-based economy. The point I made in […]

What is top of mind for today’s chief information officer? The CIO has many issues contending for top slot. There is the economy, which is uncertain at best. There are compliance issues, which can undo the best-laid corporate plans. There is the environmental movement. And, of course, there is the rapid pace of technology development. […]

I recently had the chance to talk and share a glass of wine or two with some of the top CIOs in the country at the annual Ziff Davis Enterprise CIO Summit in Half Moon Bay, California. Right, tough duty but someone has to do it. What was at the top of their minds? I […]

Thanks to one of my comment posters (that would be hell on my blog posting about five reasons for and five against the HP acquisition of EDS) for reminding me of the close collaboration that had existed between Dell and EDS. Besides both being based in Texas, the two launched what they called an “agility […]

Five Customer Reasons For and Five Customer Reasons Against the HP purchase of EDS For 1. Customers want one stop responsibility for their purchases. HP with EDS will have a longer stack going all the way from printers, through PCs, through data centers and now all the way to IT services. 2. Customers want to […]

What are the tech products or services you need to help you through a difficult economy? A food co-op tied to a social network? An easy way to manage your home’s energy consumption. I came up with ten ideas, but I’d like to hear from you.

Where are the tech products that will help us through these tough economic times? I’m putting this question the hands of you, the reader, as the vendor community has come up short in this regard. Where have the vendors been? Why haven’t they come out with any solutions for helping business executives and consumers deal […]