Eric Lundquist

10 Reasons Why Buying Sybase Was a Good Move for SAP by Eric Lundquist and John Pallatto SAP Gains the Sybase User Community Oracle Could Never Buy Larry Ellison has been buying every company he can find that fits with his business application consolidation model. But Oracle could never buy Sybase without gutting the Sybase […]

Android and 4 Other Hot Wireless Business Offerings at CTIA by Eric Lundquist All Those Great Android-Based Devices At the CTIA show, Android phones were everywhere. These smartphones offer powerful processors, high-speed networks and really sharp 4-inch displays. Sorry, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, but there’s some serious catching up to do in device look, feel […]

Lundquists Five Simple Steps to Creating a Dynamic Mobile Enterprise by Eric Lundquist Decide to Be a Mobile Company This idea has to permeate the company from the top down. Recognize that your workforce will be a mobile workforce, your customers will be a mobile customer base and you will be at a strategic disadvantage […]

10 Ways Android Will Change Enterprise IT by Eric Lundquist The Triumph of Mobile Computing and the Millenniums Business applications will be built with mobile in mind from the start and will have to have the look and feel of consumer applications. Android will accelerate this trend. Ad-Based Services Google knows how to garner billions […]

Five Techies Who Could Fix Government’s Business Intelligence Chasm Five Techies Who Could Fix Government’s Business Intelligence ChasmBy Eric Lundquist Larry Ellison Yes, Larry, “Mr. Oracle,” “Sail Around the World,” Ellison. He’s smart, made a huge business out of understanding databases, likes to mash up competing companies for breakfast and can out-nerd any DB argument […]

10 Tech Events That Shaped the Decade by Eric Lundquist 2000: The End of the World – Not and Sort Of As the clock ticked toward the end of 1999 and the start of 2000, the big question was, “Will the digital world stop dead as the ball falls at Times Square marking the end […]

The end of the year approaches, and you have spent way too much time on Facebook and Twitter and worrying about little things like keeping your company in business in 2009. However, despite a once-gloomy economy now showing some sun around the edges and an interest in social media bordering on fixation, the technology world […]

Eric Lundquists 25 Most Influential Techies During 25 Years of PCWeek/eWEEK Andy Grove Let’s say the PC industry was formed by building boxes and software that surrounded a processor. No processor = no PC industry. Grove led Intel out of the memory business and into the processor era. Bill Gates He wasn’t the best programmer […]

10 Reasons Why the Windows 7 Upgrade Is Unlike Any Other The Whole (Microsoft Windows) Enchilada This is the first time the server side applications and the client side applications are all being updated at the same time. Storm Clouds? This is the first time a really new computing model—cloud computing—is demanding that Microsoft can […]

I stopped for a few days at the big IFA consumer technology show in Berlin, Germany. Once, it was technology developments in the business sphere that eventually moved to the consumer space. E-mail, personal computing and mobile phones originally found their home in the business space before branching to the consumer world. Now, the trend […]