Eric Lundquist

Success is always one model year away. Scott McNealy may have spent 21 years guiding Sun Microsystems, but his early business training and first job, on the Corvette hardbody and finishing line, has had as much influence on the company as anything else. My recent interview with McNealy brought to mind comparisons to the auto […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy is no stranger to technology cycles. In the 21 years of Suns existence, the Santa Clara, Calif., company has been at the top and bottom and in the middle of several. In this one-on-one interview with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist, McNealy answers questions about Linux, […]

Outsourcing your software development or business processing to a company in another country can make a lot of sense—unless you see your livelihood go away. The irony is that a rising, technology-driven stock market combined with a rising interest in outsourced software development lends itself to the prospect of companies seeking Wall Streets favor by […]

The tech story of the year so far that will be even bigger next year? Lets see. You could argue that it is the first favorable signs of the end of the tech-spending freeze. Last week, Goldman Sachs, in its latest IT Spending Survey, taken in mid-June, found general improvement in spending intentions for the […]

In his open e-mail letter “Towards a Spam-free Future,” Bill Gates begins his remarks with the development of e-mail in the early 1970s. But when was the first spam message? For that answer, youd have to turn to Brad Templetons Home Page (www.templetons.com/brad), and there you would learn that on May 3, 1978, a representative […]

Oracle launches a hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft and claims it will be good for the customer. SCO says customer benefit is a goal of its suit against IBM alleging IBM violated its Unix license. Palms acquisition of Handspring was touted, in part, as a way to “deliver more value to the customer.” Are there […]

Technology vendors have been elbowing one another out of the way to proclaim greater allegiance to the XML standard as the fulcrum to bring harmony to all parts of the computing infrastructure. Will they be as willing to agree to a business interface to achieve contractual harmony? They will when doing business with General Motors, […]

Are you starting to put together your IT budget for next year? Try this: Save a bunch of money by bringing structure and administration to your infrastructure. Now, take those savings and give back half the money to your boss. Then take the other half to invest in new projects. Before you tell me what […]

Open source has given rise to open warfare. When, on March 7, The SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM regarding the present and future intellectual property rights to Unix and—more important—to Linux, you could almost hear the keyboard clicks as open-source advocates leveled their e-mail artillery at the SCO camp. The lawsuit has all […]

Lets retire the term “tech wreck” now that Larry Ellison has launched a $5.1 billion hostile bid for a company that bet on the Internet, of all things. While hostile bids are not supposed to be part of the technology industry lexicon, the Oracle proposal to take over PeopleSoft makes sense when youve taken as […]