Eric Lundquist

Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Those were what some of the largest tech vendors were betting on this week through a combination of acquisition and product introduction. Oracle continued its quest to prove CEO Larry Ellison correct in his prediction of a consolidating enterprise application market, by acquiring CRM (customer relationship management) company Siebel. Meg Whitman […]

The vocabulary of the tech industry—covering such concepts as disaster recovery, groupware, search engines and digital entertainment—is due for a change. The reasons for the change include a range of economic, social and environmental factors, but the need to find words and phrases that really fit the task at hand is upon us. Disaster recovery […]

Last week, technology news took a far back seat to the forces of nature. As Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Southern United States, the tech industry, along with the rest of the country, could only stare in awe and trepidation at the forces stirred up over the ocean and possibly spurred on by global warming. The […]

It was nostalgia time in Boston last week. Imagine a group that was big in the 1960s but is still finding itself relevant and entertaining in 2005. Now who could that be? Surprise, but Im not talking about The Rolling Stones, which opened its current U.S. tour last week at Bostons Fenway Park. Fenway Park, […]

How good are your visualization abilities? What is the name of the manufacturer of your companys HVAC system? As far apart as those two questions seem to be, they should be on your companys technology skills list. Being able to answer those questions and ones like them is also important to your career. I was […]

On the same day that President George W. Bush signed the $14.5 billion energy bill into law, the price of crude oil hit a new high of $64.27 a barrel. As the bills proponents noted, there was nothing in the bill to alter the ever-climbing price of oil in the short term. The laws provisions, […]

Ask a mainframe aficionado what he or she thinks about utility computing, computing on demand and virtual computing, and youll often get the answer that they are great ideas—and ones that have been part of the mainframe architecture since about the 1970s. Dont even ask about thin-client computing unless you want a lecture about time-sharing […]

The most interesting and satisfying technology projects are also the most difficult. Consolidating your server room from 200 to 50 servers might bring a warmth to those bean counters cold hearts, but server or storage consolidation or one more round of bug fixes isnt the stuff of which IT legends are made. Heres a tough […]

One argument Id made against the previous Hewlett-Packard administration (that would be the Carly Fiorina era) was the difficulty of competing in a broad spectrum of market segments ranging from consumer electronics to high-end enterprise system consulting. Could a company, even with HPs heft, take on Sony, Dell and IBM and still fuel growth, continue […]

In his conference call Tuesday outlining the 14,500 employee cutbacks and the restructuring of Hewlett-Packard into three main groups, recently installed CEO Mark Hurd indicated that he will be intent on finding new efficiencies at HP in existing market segments rather than pulling back or dropping out of any of the companys broad market offerings. […]