Eric Lundquist

The “green” in the green data center equation should start with the color of money and end at an environmental goal. Data centers are due for a major reworking during the next five years, and youd be best off starting with a financial model and reaching your environmental goals as a bonus. Data centers in […]

Can a German, Franco, American alliance take on Oracle? Following SAP’s announced intention to buy Business Objects for $6.79 billion, the business of business intelligence software is due for a big change. Among those changes are SAP’s being forced to forego its “let’s build it, rather than buy it” strategy, an acknowledgment that Oracle’s $3.3 […]

There is a Swedish liquor Akavit which if not taken in moderation will give you a hangover that will last the entire seven dark months of the Scandinavian winter. In many ways, eBay is about to experience a very similar malady. eBay bought Skype in 2005 for about $3.1 billion with the strange idea that […]

The word processing battle for the hearts and minds of computer users has moved from the personal computer to the cloud. This had to happen. Microsoft is the big gorilla in the word processing (and associated office applications) business, but they have continually addressed their need to sell more office applications by adding more features […]

Texting your way to social network nirvana, a renaissance in enterprise applications and Web services that hide a huge amount of complexity behind a simple interface were all agenda items at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference held in Cambridge from Sept. 25 to Sept. 27. The range of new, and slightly new, companies talking about the […]

Remember when nothing was virtualized in the high-tech world? When servers were servers and software was software and firm boundaries existed that any bean counter could calculate? You need more capacity? Then you need to buy one more server and one more operating system to go with that server. You want two more servers? Well, […]

Quick, give me a list of successful high technology executives who went on to become super-successful in other fields. Stumped? I dont blame you—the list is very small. Thats among the reasons why Sheldon Adelsons story is so remarkable. Sheldon was in the news recently as the man behind the opening of the $2.4 billion […]

In this era of financial systems that track billions of shares traded, why is it that nearly every story on the sub-prime mortgage crisis starts with a statement about no one knowing the extent of the crisis? I did a column about the need for more friction in this high tech frictionless economy which spurred […]

You should know three things about Stan Shih. He figured out the PC industry faster and better than any other major executive; he came up with one of the easiest-to-understand descriptions of where to make money in computers; and he knew when to get out. Shih was co-founder of what became Acer Group in 1976. […]

Quick, give me a list of list of successful high technology executives who went on to become super successful in other fields. Stumped? I don’t blame you, the list is very small as near as I can figure. That’s among the reasons why Sheldon Adelson’s story is so remarkable. Sheldon was in the news recently […]