Eric Lundquist

This is a print copy of my weekly video commentary. You can see the commentary when it is posted on Monday, March 3. The commentary explains why I am going over to Germany in the winter instead of somewhere much warmer like the south of France or Santa Barbara. Each year I go to the […]

A Better Way to Cut Your IT Budget A Better Way to Cut Your IT Budget – Get Real 1. Get Real. You know better than anyone else where the nooks and crannies of the IT budget are. If you are asked to cut the budget, start with the chairman’s pet project. When school departments […]

Who knows more about the issues involved in developing a secure, portable patient healthcare records system, Google, Microsoft or a CIO deeply involved in building a health records system? Right, my money is with the CIO. John Halamka writes a blog called Life As A Healthcare CIO. His blog covers a lot of territory, but […]

The analysts over at Gartner recently said that now is the time to cut the IT budget and they provided six steps to get the job done. The six steps play off advice offered by the company last fall which said CIOs should prepare two budgets: one that should reflect the numbers handed down from […]

First off, let me give credit to Harper’s magazine and writer Ginger Strand for uncovering and reporting on Google’s O2 project for a massive data center at The Dalles, Oregon. When I wrote a column about the project last June and mentioned the conflict between Google championing green computing while at the same time building […]

Microsoft’s bid to takeover Yahoo is being treated like a spectator sport. Despite Bill Gates saying there is no intention to raise the bid, will Microsoft dig deeper when the time comes to up the bid? Will the slumbering Yahoo board finally wake up and try for a better deal? Will layoffs and rapid employee […]

Microsoft has a decision to make. No, not should it throw a few more bucks in the pot to sweeten its bid for Yahoo. I’m betting they will continue their unfriendly ways (so much for Bill Gates’ compassionate capitalism) until Yahoo gets sucked into the Redmond maw. The decision I’m talking about is whether to […]

At the start of World War I, the British cut the German transatlantic cables which required the Germans to reroute their transatlantic messages via U.S. or Swedish lines. You can read a synopsis of the cutting, the intercept of the rerouted cable traffic, the breaking of the German code and the resulting tensions between the […]

Well it hasn’t bought it, but it’s proposed a buyout. Can Steve Ballmer and company finally carve out a much desired space in the consumer Web by buying an early pioneer that has lost direction? The combination would put Microsoft in the No. 1 position on the Web for a destination site. Yahoo holds that […]

While much of the tech world was watching Steve Jobs offer up a thinner notebook and listening to Intel offer some warnings about a tech slowdown, the execs at Oracle were quietly upping the ante for the takeover of BEA Systems. Putting some more chips on the table worked well as today the companies announced […]

Maybe IBM should change its name to IBS, as in International Business Services. Today, company officials couldn’t contain their enthusiasm and issued preliminary revenue numbers that buoyed IBM, the technology market and (in a welcome whiff of good news) the stock market in general. While much of the tech world has remained fixated on Google […]

Here’s a quote from Bill Gates, “This next era that we’re moving into is quite different than the original PC era.” Where did that come from? Bill’s first of many 2008 Microsoft retirement speeches including the one at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show? Nope, that quote was from Bill’s 1994 Comdex keynote speech. With Bill […]