Eric Lundquist

What is the best IT architecture for your company? Which vendors should you support that will help you build that architecture rather than simply try to sell you more product in these economic doldrums? In this weeks special report on enterprise architecture, Technology Editor Peter Coffee does an outstanding job traversing the current buzzword-laden landscape […]

“We make the Net work,” Sun President Scott McNealy told the gathering at last weeks annual stock analysts meeting. While there are lots of company symbols and logos that make little sense, McNealys statement on the 21st anniversary of the company is concise in presenting both the challenge and the opportunity not only for Sun […]

What would you do with a $2 billion (yes, billion) IT budget? Revamp your entire computer infrastructure? Offer Web-based services that forever distance you from the competition? Outsource the whole thing and put cash back in the corporate till? In this weeks issue, Stan Gibson interviews an exec who is key in spending that budget, […]

On Wednesday, the day before Dell Computer announced its latest quarterly results, I was at the companys Round Rock, Texas, headquarters for a series of technology briefings when Michael himself stopped by. Having interviewed the companys namesake several times over the years, by now I think Im getting pretty good at judging the health of […]

Last week in an SEC filing (as detailed in a story by Peter Galli), Microsoft raised a warning flag over open-source software. Microsoft execs fear the open-source model is about to start eating into the companys enterprise business. Far be it from me to remind anyone of Microsofts development and pricing of the Internet Explorer […]

Outsourcing is a great idea—if you use it to improve your companys technology use rather than for simple slash-and-cut accounting. When J.P. Morgan Chase and IBM announced a $5 billion outsourcing deal, we were interested in the story behind the story. Was this a multibillion-dollar bet being placed by J.P. Morgan on IBMs on-demand plan […]

What does the March 1 startup date of the Department of Homeland Security mean for private industry? And, in particular, the parts of private industry charged with maintaining data security? That date holds special importance as companies try to balance IT security, business innovation and a continuing balky economy. In this weeks special eWeek Labs […]

“Glanceable information” was the somewhat tortured description Bill Gates used during his keynote last week at the Consumer Electronics Show to explain the content well be looking at in the next generation of digital watches, PDAs and other consumer appliances. Using Microsofts SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) gadgets, users will be able to glance at […]

As Jeff Moad writes in this weeks cover story on IBMs strategy, the real challenge for the company is to maintain technology leadership while navigating its migration up the business-process-consulting food chain. In our special report on IBM and in our lead eWeek Labs review of IBMs latest WebSphere application server, we take a close […]

How will 2002 be remembered in the technology community? The year was marked by evaporating budgets, layoffs and an overall grumpiness that the promise of a technology-driven economy was shattered. In this, our final issue of the year (weve combined Dec. 23 and 30 issues), weve asked the eWEEK Labs and News teams to look […]

You would have about as much luck controlling instant messaging use in your company as you would convincing your son that doing his homework while keeping nine IM windows open is not a pathway to academic success. Given that you wont have much luck stemming IM use at work but knowing that your company can […]

Juggling is currently one of IBMs favorite activities. The company must juggle extolling the benefits of enterprise applications with On Demand computing, where applications are hosted elsewhere. The company must juggle the independence of its Global Services business with the need to sell more IBM hardware and software. And it must juggle the offerings from […]