Eric Lundquist

HANNOVER, Germany—The biggest threat to the established telecom industry came to the CeBIT show here wearing a pinstriped suit and looking thoroughly corporate. Niklas Zennström, CEO and co-founder of Skype Technologies SA, stopped cold the chatter at CeBITs Technology Industry Summit by announcing that the company that provides free phone calls over the Internet now […]

There are two operating systems on your ThinkPad. There is the one you always use and update (and update). Then there is another one that, although not generally known as an operating system, sits on a hidden partition and allows you to reboot and open files and generally acts as a life preserver should you […]

Steve Mills has been senior vice president and group executive for IBM Software since July 2000. Mills is responsible for IBMs overall software strategy and for managing the Armonk, N.Y., companys $14 billion software business. He met with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist last week at IBMs PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas. Any calls […]

Is Southern California the new Northern California? I had a lot of time last week to think about the shift of Californias high-tech industry southward. During a week of rain, as mudslides moved the ground from Los Angeles South, I had a chance to talk to a number of companies about the tech shift South. […]

Heres some advice for the next CEO to sit in the chair at the HP “innovation garage.” Im sure youre going to get a lot of consultants willing to provide advice about what to do next, but they will be on a retainer basis. The advice here is free and provided by CIOs and technology […]

“Who is Bill Gates?” I asked the new MSN search engine. I hit the return, waited a second and—whoops—read the top Web response indicating that Bill was a very nasty character prophesied by the ever-pessimistic Nostradamus. And thus the new MSN search engine flubbed the initial test I use on every new search engine. To […]

There is nothing like a quick change atop one of techs most beloved companies to rekindle the Silicon Valley soap opera. A drawn-out executive search would not be good for Hewlett-Packard. Right or wrong, Carly Fiorina instilled a very structured approach to the disparate businesses wherein the company operated. But without the orders coming down […]

As travel schedules would have it, I was in Palo Alto celebrating Fat Tuesday the same day Carly Fiorina was getting tossed by the HP board. She would have had a better time at Nolas on Ramona Street. While there was far more speculation than fact rumbling through Palo Alto the day after Fiorinas six-year […]

Enterprise application platforms are the new corporate operating systems. Picking the right platform is a fundamental decision that can make or break your organization and your career. The weight of that decision is why it is worth listening to the promises of Oracle and SAP and why it is even more important to separate promise […]

The possibility that the FBI may have to scrap its $170 million Virtual Case File software program was described by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in one report as a “train disaster in slow motion.” While big projects can fail in a spectacular manner, the same is often true for smaller corporate projects: for instance, the […]

“The event has not yet started.” That was the message I was getting from my media player as I tried to watch Oracles Web conference last week. And while I had to opt for the audio conference to hear from Larry Ellison and friends about the future of the Oracle-PeopleSoft combination, the message in my […]

“It is a great time to be a technologist.” Say what? Amid the talk of outsourcing, offshoring and consolidation everywhere you turn, is it really a great time to be the technologist in your company? Yes, says David Barnes, and he should know. I spoke with Barnes shortly after he was named CIO of UPS […]