Eric Lundquist

The “green field” IT idea involves imagining what your technology infrastructure would look like if you could start from nothing. If today you could build your data center, applications and organizational structure from the ground up, what would you do? Where green-field planning used to be just one of those stupid exercises you would be […]

If Bill Gates showed up at the Microsoft employment office today, would he get a job? I dont think so. After all, he dropped out of college after three years, doesnt hold a technical degree and would probably flunk those tests where you try to find out if the prospective employee works well with others. […]

Here are five technologies to keep an eye on. 1. Fon. Remember Crazy Eddie Stories (here is a tribute page: where prices were INSANE! The folks at Fon are trying to jumpstart their social router movement by selling Linksys WRT54GL or Buffalo WHRG54S routers for $5 or 5 euros. Just like Eddie, they are losing […]

Can Google turn enterprise IT from a cost center to a profit center? Maybe. That question and answer came up during the keynote session at MITs 2006 CIO Symposium. And the person answering the audience members questions was keynoter and Google Vice President and General Manager David Girouard, the Google executive responsible for all aspects […]

Despite his background in the railroad industry, Jack Messman was never able to get Novell on track. While Im not privy to the details, it appears that the Novell board of directors finally decided Messman was not the right engineer (or CEO) for the Novell train and tossed him and the companys chief financial officer […]

The era of CIO 2.0 is upon us. Thats my conclusion after several days of discussions at the Ziff Davis CIO Summit held June 12-15 in Napa, Calif. Amid the wine tasting, golf and general chatter about the state of the technology industry, the underlying changes that IT managers and the CIO community have embraced […]

Bill Gates has provided a firm delivery date for the next version of the Microsoft company. The date is July 2008 and the deliverable will be Bill stepping out of the day-to-day operations of the company he co-founded. He intends to shift his more active attentions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is […]

It is graduation season in the United States, and for those graduates with computer science and engineering degrees, this graduation should mark a promising start—if theyve learned the right skills. There are lots of reasons for those grads to be optimistic that theyll be able to put their skills to work and enjoy a rewarding […]

“Well, that 2006 World Cup sure was exciting. Brazil took the top honors, of course, just as the prediction engines claimed before the first kickoff.” Sound likely? A lot of people think so. Ive been looking at a couple of the predictions coming from those World Cup addicts who also have computers and Ive put […]

The new Google Spreadsheets feature is a very simple spreadsheet with very strong collaboration underpinnings. This is a big change from how Microsoft started out with Excel. Excel began as a powerful, programmable spreadsheet, which over time gained more and more collaborative capabilities. Excel has its own programming language that gave rise to a generation […]

Microsoft and eBay? That combination, widely rumored and unconfirmed as of this writing, was only the latest in a silly season of old-line companies striving for buzz through affiliation. As of last week, the rumor du jour was that Microsoft is contemplating the acquisition of eBay to provide some heft in blocking the rise of […]

On May 23, we held our annual eWEEK Excellence Awards dinner in Boston. This was our sixth awards dinner, and speaking as about the most biased observer you will find, I believe the awards recipients and the community organizations we celebrated provide a combination that gets more powerful each year. When we set out to […]