Eric Lundquist

Has anyone else noticed that in high tech this is the $100 year? I’ll give you two examples of why that Franklin is the bill that changed tech for good this year. And I’ll offer up one idea why the next century note you spend may be the best IT investment you make in 2008 […]

I’m giving some blog space here to John Jordan (here is his contact) John is the Executive Director, Center for Digital Transformation Department: Center for Digital Transformation at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. John sent along his ten predictions in tech for the next ten years. I’ll list them here with some links […]

What are your top seven technology priorities for 2008? And how many of those priorities did not even exist in 2001? EMC Chairman Joe Tucci recently provided a list of CIO priorities drawn from the companys customer contacts and research. I think the list does reflect 2008 business technology priorities. Im comparing it against 2001, […]

In 2003, I wrote one of my most popular columns, which looked at what golf has to teach the technology business. In that column, I acknowledged my pitiful golf skills but decided that—even with all my lost balls and futile swings—I could learn something from the game. I had a chance to return to the […]

The Red Sox win the World Series against a team that keeps its baseballs in a humidor and wears uniforms that are knockoffs of the outfit worn by Colonel Sandurz in the 1987 science fiction parody “Spaceballs.” The New England Patriots run up a basketball score of 52-7 against Washington and show all the signs […]

The Red Sox win the World Series against a team that keeps its baseballs in a humidor and wears uniforms that are knockoffs of the outfit worn by Colonel Sandurz in the 1987 science fiction parody Spaceballs. The New England Patriots run up a basketball score of 52-7 against Washington and show all the signs […]

The grand unification of all things in high tech is moving right along. Last week, it was Bill Gates and Microsoft talking up unified communications. The week before, it was Larry Ellison and Oracle continuing their quest to fuse all enterprise applications through constant use of Ellisons checkbook. While big vendors have received much of […]

Steve Ballmer’s odd relation with clouds As the boss at Microsoft now that Bill Gates is doing his retirement lap, Steve Ballmer has to be the company’s chief cheerleader, seer and management guru. Nowhere was that more in evidence than at the recent Gartner IT Symposium where for the tenth year in a row, Ballmer […]

It is easy to sum up Michael Dell’s discussion at the Gartner IT Symposium this year. In the past, he was always a champion of the direct channel and extolled the virtues of quick manufacturing turns, build to order and tight inventory management. Now, Michael loves every channel including retail, indirect and system builder. His […]

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Now that Larry Ellison and Oracle have launched a $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems, is Larry on the path to a weeping scene similar to Alexander once he buys up every enterprise software company in the […]