Eric Lundquist

The economy, technology and the world have changed dramatically over the last two years. Where once the stock market seemed to have no top, now we try to determine if we are bouncing off the bottom. Where once companies rushed to buy technology at any cost, now they scrutinize each investment dollar. And the world […]

Its hard to believe, but there are actually interesting events occurring in the technology business besides what is happening in courtrooms. The courts have recently featured two ongoing spectacles. The action surrounding the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq has shifted to a courtroom in Wilmington, Del. In that courtroom, the present management of HP […]

The upcoming Networld+Interop Show in Las Vegas was once all about trying to make disparate networking standards communicate. During the show, you could always walk by the network operations center to see engineers and network designers pounding away trying to make diverse islands of communication talk to one another. Those engineers were usually successful but […]

Its good to see customers holding vendors feet to the fire over security issues. As “Contracts Getting Tough on Security“, some large-enterprise customers have begun writing clauses into their contracts with vendors that hold the vendors liable for a security breach, virus attack or any other incident related to the vendors software. Although Ive never […]

NSTISSP no. 11. now theres an acronym. When I tire of the tech industrys acronym-laden language, I take comfort that things are worse on the government side. NSTISSP is an abbreviation that requires your attention. It is part of a broad government mandate to move federal agencies toward a digital-based system. The system falls under […]

The adage in the operating system market was always that Microsofts installed base is the companys biggest benefit and its biggest detriment. The need to strike a balance between cool new features and compatibility with past applications is a choice on which hangs hundreds of millions in revenues and success or failure of operating system […]

Now the hard work begins for Carly Fiorina and the HP-Compaq integration team. If the thin margin of victory that HP proclaimed holds up through the counting process, the speed with which the two decidedly different cultures can be meshed will dictate the success or failure of the merged entity. Wooing shareholders is easy work […]

Want a good deal on 1,000 desktop PCs? Or how about a big Internet router? Or, for that matter, an entire new IT infrastructure? As any IT manager with a few bucks still in the budget knows, now is a very good time to strike some very good deals. After a couple of years of […]

Which will end first, the Microsoft and Department of Justice travails or the Hewlett-Packard and Compaq melodrama? While most would point to the upcoming March 19 shareholder vote on the HP-Compaq proposed merger as an end point, I think this one could stretch on longer than the Microsoft-vs.-DOJ smack down. I dont know how the […]

The 15 winners in our second annual excellence awards program—featured in this weeks issue—were selected from hundreds of entries by a judging team that included our eWeek Labs analysts and members of our Corporate Partners advisory board. While there are other awards competitions in our industry, as well as in others, Id like to point […]

Talk to database vendors, and theyll quickly tell you a companys database is its crown jewels. Ask a database vendor why you should select its product, and itll quickly produce reams of data showing how its system has more capacity and is faster and more secure than any other companys database. Look for independent confirmation […]

The prospect of web services is finally moving from promise to potential, and that means developers will have to start choosing their weapons. Last week, Microsoft, which long ago figured out that courting developers is a key to success, introduced its service tool kit and seriously began the courting process. For those of you not […]