Eric Lundquist

There is nothing like a quick change atop one of techs most beloved companies to rekindle the Silicon Valley soap opera. A drawn-out executive search would not be good for Hewlett-Packard. Right or wrong, Carly Fiorina instilled a very structured approach to the disparate businesses wherein the company operated. But without the orders coming down […]

As travel schedules would have it, I was in Palo Alto celebrating Fat Tuesday the same day Carly Fiorina was getting tossed by the HP board. She would have had a better time at Nolas on Ramona Street. While there was far more speculation than fact rumbling through Palo Alto the day after Fiorinas six-year […]

Enterprise application platforms are the new corporate operating systems. Picking the right platform is a fundamental decision that can make or break your organization and your career. The weight of that decision is why it is worth listening to the promises of Oracle and SAP and why it is even more important to separate promise […]

The possibility that the FBI may have to scrap its $170 million Virtual Case File software program was described by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in one report as a “train disaster in slow motion.” While big projects can fail in a spectacular manner, the same is often true for smaller corporate projects: for instance, the […]

“The event has not yet started.” That was the message I was getting from my media player as I tried to watch Oracles Web conference last week. And while I had to opt for the audio conference to hear from Larry Ellison and friends about the future of the Oracle-PeopleSoft combination, the message in my […]

“It is a great time to be a technologist.” Say what? Amid the talk of outsourcing, offshoring and consolidation everywhere you turn, is it really a great time to be the technologist in your company? Yes, says David Barnes, and he should know. I spoke with Barnes shortly after he was named CIO of UPS […]

The start of the new year in technology is marked on the consumer side by the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and on the corporate side by lots of meetings about return on investment, aligning technology and business, and a host of good intentions to get the most bang for the technology buck. The […]

The start of the new year is often the time for forecasts. While you can guess at acquisitions, takeovers and tech trends, sometimes its a better idea to keep your eye on the industry leaders. Here are some of my picks for people to watch this year in the tech industry. While some are familiar […]

Technology developments this year started slowly but wound up in a merger and divestiture frenzy that shows no signs of letting up. But behind the headlines are some winners that wont emerge until next year. Here are my 2004 highlights, as well as predictions for what they will look like at the end of next […]

As I was booting up my Lenovo ThinkPad X-40, I was wondering, as many other techies have done lately, what it means for IBM to be getting out of the desktop/laptop business. After a week of speculation, IBM and the China-based Lenovo Group announced a complex $1.75 billion deal. The deal will make Lenovo a […]