Eric Lundquist

The Red Sox win the World Series against a team that keeps its baseballs in a humidor and wears uniforms that are knockoffs of the outfit worn by Colonel Sandurz in the 1987 science fiction parody “Spaceballs.” The New England Patriots run up a basketball score of 52-7 against Washington and show all the signs […]

The Red Sox win the World Series against a team that keeps its baseballs in a humidor and wears uniforms that are knockoffs of the outfit worn by Colonel Sandurz in the 1987 science fiction parody Spaceballs. The New England Patriots run up a basketball score of 52-7 against Washington and show all the signs […]

The grand unification of all things in high tech is moving right along. Last week, it was Bill Gates and Microsoft talking up unified communications. The week before, it was Larry Ellison and Oracle continuing their quest to fuse all enterprise applications through constant use of Ellisons checkbook. While big vendors have received much of […]

Steve Ballmer’s odd relation with clouds As the boss at Microsoft now that Bill Gates is doing his retirement lap, Steve Ballmer has to be the company’s chief cheerleader, seer and management guru. Nowhere was that more in evidence than at the recent Gartner IT Symposium where for the tenth year in a row, Ballmer […]

It is easy to sum up Michael Dell’s discussion at the Gartner IT Symposium this year. In the past, he was always a champion of the direct channel and extolled the virtues of quick manufacturing turns, build to order and tight inventory management. Now, Michael loves every channel including retail, indirect and system builder. His […]

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Now that Larry Ellison and Oracle have launched a $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems, is Larry on the path to a weeping scene similar to Alexander once he buys up every enterprise software company in the […]

The “green” in the green data center equation should start with the color of money and end at an environmental goal. Data centers are due for a major reworking during the next five years, and youd be best off starting with a financial model and reaching your environmental goals as a bonus. Data centers in […]

Can a German, Franco, American alliance take on Oracle? Following SAP’s announced intention to buy Business Objects for $6.79 billion, the business of business intelligence software is due for a big change. Among those changes are SAP’s being forced to forego its “let’s build it, rather than buy it” strategy, an acknowledgment that Oracle’s $3.3 […]

There is a Swedish liquor Akavit which if not taken in moderation will give you a hangover that will last the entire seven dark months of the Scandinavian winter. In many ways, eBay is about to experience a very similar malady. eBay bought Skype in 2005 for about $3.1 billion with the strange idea that […]

The word processing battle for the hearts and minds of computer users has moved from the personal computer to the cloud. This had to happen. Microsoft is the big gorilla in the word processing (and associated office applications) business, but they have continually addressed their need to sell more office applications by adding more features […]

Texting your way to social network nirvana, a renaissance in enterprise applications and Web services that hide a huge amount of complexity behind a simple interface were all agenda items at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference held in Cambridge from Sept. 25 to Sept. 27. The range of new, and slightly new, companies talking about the […]

Remember when nothing was virtualized in the high-tech world? When servers were servers and software was software and firm boundaries existed that any bean counter could calculate? You need more capacity? Then you need to buy one more server and one more operating system to go with that server. You want two more servers? Well, […]