Eric Lundquist

Two years ago, at the high-water mark for the dot-com boom, Microsoft introduced its .Net initiative. On Wednesday, amid the debris of a shattered new economy and with Wall Street looking more like the boulevard of broken dreams, Bill Gates provided an update on where .Net, Microsoft and the technology industry are headed. That update, […]

Grid computing makes sense. The computing horsepower sitting idle most of the day on desktops and in server rooms would, if harnessed, provide all the computing cycles an enterprise needs. But its the harnessing problem that keeps the grid promise from becoming reality. In this weeks eWeek Labs section, we analyze the state of grid […]

Now that the stock market has returned to its 1997 level, its like the Internet boom never really happened. Unfortunately, that return to five years ago has not been a pretty picture and includes shattered investments, debilitated (or in some cases, evaporated) companies and tawdry examples of unfettered greed. Now that it appears some of […]

One of the tenets of the dot-com age was that sales didnt matter. Companies measured success by Web click-throughs, unique visitors or the number of deals with other dot-com companies. All those measures ended in ashes, along with the companies that tried to convince the world that revenues were old measures best relegated to the […]

One of the great promises of the Internet was to make hidden business practices visible. By using the Web and Web-based publishing tools, a company could give the small investor immediate access to a companys fiscal reports at the same time the big investors got it. While the tools were there to make this happen, […]

What is the it community doing during the tech downturn? Aside from covering the jobs left unfilled by budget-wary companies, IT workers are reviving the evaluation processes that served them in good stead before the Internet bubble popped. In those processes, you consider the computing requirements that a business need demands, research a set of […]

Solaris 9 is a hugely important product for sun. this new version of the basic Sun operating system must encourage users to upgrade, attract Microsoft fans still unconvinced Windows is ready to run the enterprise and hold off open-source advocates about to defect to Linux—all this as the economy remains in the doldrums, Suns stock […]

Raw horsepower under the hood doesnt do you much good if you cant use it, and computing power packed on cards and placed in a rack wont do you much good if you cant manage all that CPU horsepower. Thats the current state of affairs with server blade technology, which is getting way too much […]

Security patches remind me of the patches that drivers used to stick on the inner tubes of blown tires. Driving on a patched tire was always risky, and no sooner would you install one patch, when another was needed 10 miles down the road. At some point, as cartoonists loved to depict, you couldnt tell […]

The potential users of Web services have their priorities correct. Now well see if the vendors can address those needs in the order required. As our news story and our eWeek Labs feature story outline, Web security concerns have to be overcome before these services can develop into anything beyond a promise. There is a […]

The value of focus—especially in tough times—is extraordinary. Dell stayed focused on being the most efficient computer vendor and is seeing some powerful gains in market share. IBMs new chief executive, Sam Palmisano, is getting a quick lesson in the need to reduce his work force by choosing exactly where to focus the sprawling company. […]

I was in line at the Las Vegas Hilton coffee shop, waiting for that extra-large cup of coffee, when I realized this wireless thing had gone too far. In front of me, an N+I exhibitor (I could tell by the badge dangling from his neck) was trying to order a half-latte, half-cappuccino while attempting to […]