Eric Lundquist

How vast is your IT operation? A better question might be: How simple is it? At a time when vendors, including Microsoft, are once again gearing up for a feature race, theres a good chance those vendors will be fighting the last war instead of the next one. The lesson from the past is not […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Its time to invest in IT to help your companys top-line revenue growth. But dont forget the bottom line. And dont make any mistakes, or you may find yourself outsourced. While those were not the three announced themes of last weeks annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., those issues […]

If youre like most IT pros, your company is running applications that were created well before you arrived on the scene. How much longer will it be before you put those old apps out to pasture? That question came up during a recent panel discussion I moderated in which five CIOs delved into their IT […]

When a mutual fund manager is doing the job, he or she is managing a portfolio of stocks for the good of the funds shareholders. This consists of acquiring stocks with promise, making judgment calls on those that are on the borderline and dumping the dogs. The role of the IT manager is similar. The […]

Did Wal-Mart help keep the united states from falling deeper into economic trouble than it did? Matthew Szulik, chairman and CEO of Red Hat, thinks so. “I have great personal admiration for what Wal-Mart has done,” Szulik told me during a recent breakfast meeting. Wal-Marts combination of high value and low cost for the customer, […]

Three companies—AMD, Oracle and Sun Microsystems—have used three separate approaches to distinguish their products from the rest of the technology pack. While it is tough to guess whether those approaches will pay off in the marketplace, it is good for the technology industry and good for end users to have new choices. The respective approaches […]

Two years after Sept. 11, 2001, is the U.S. IT infrastructure a safer place to do business? If you ask the average home computer user whos trying to untangle the latest worms and viruses, the answer will be no. If you ask the corporate IT administrator whos trying to decipher the host of new regulations […]

When Jamie Shiers says grid computing is the next big thing, it is worth paying attention. Shiers is the Database Group lead manager at CERN. CERN is the birthplace of the World Wide Web, and the technology folks from the organization carry weight when they speak. “What would happen if something came along that would […]

What does golf have to teach the technology business? Quite a bit. Recently, I had a chance to play with the Ziff Davis crew and guests at Pebble Beach, where, in between trying to retrieve lost balls and taking too many futile swings, I pondered that question. Im a lousy golfer, but walking a storied […]

Who is responsible for the latest rounds of virus and worm attacks? While speculation includes the usual suspects—intelligent but twisted coders—the list has also lengthened to include digital terrorists. While we may never know who is responsible, the bigger question for technology professionals is who is responsible for keeping those viruses and worms away from […]

On my way down to Atlanta for Hewlett-Packards HP World event recently, I realized my questions about the company had changed nearly as fast as the integration of HP and Compaq. Previously, those questions focused on internal issues. Could the two very different companies be melded? Could the HP-Compaq combination sort through all overlapping products […]

My recent decision to upgrade a couple of home PCs came at the same time as a Consumer Reports survey was released showing increased frustration with the telephone support lines at software manufacturers. I knew immediately how not to join the ranks of the frustrated. No matter how grim the upgrade march, I know the […]