Eric Lundquist

Can there be joy in joining databases? Absolutely. Especially when the new joins and resulting reports give your corporate execs information to beat the competition. Its the stuff that can make you a company hero. Susan Jones is an information architect at Elie Tahari, a high-end womens fashion company in New York. Jones develops applications […]

Vendors and prognosticators are either wringing their hands looking for the next big thing or worrying that IT has become a low-priced commodity to be purchased like electricity or paper clips. They could learn a thing or two from mainframes, pay phones and backhoes. Heres why. The mainframe business has been predicted to die ever […]

Utilities as models of business efficiency? I dont think so. I tend to associate utilities—especially electric companies—with bright yellow, extended-cab pickup trucks emblazoned with a Mass. Electric logo parked in front of coffee shops. That and promises of nuclear power too cheap to meter and some long-ago high-school physics class where I learned that about […]

The deal went something like this: Apply yourself to mastering the technologies that increasingly underpin the world, and your future will be without limits. While the deal was not written down as such, that was the message delivered to students over the past decade. Now we are nearing the time to make good on the […]

Quick, name the top PC vendors. Wrong. Try Formoza, Kraftway, Aquarius, R-Syle Computers and K Systems. They dont sound familiar? They would if you were shopping in Moscow. And the biggest vendor of all in Russia, according to IDC researcher Robert Farish, is the neighborhood white-box assembler, which accounts for 85 percent of the market. […]

Im thinking about outsourcing my homes IT operations. I figure if big players such as Procter & Gamble and J.P. Morgan Chase are outsourcing their businesses to Hewlett-Packard and IBM, respectively, they must be on to something. No more will I have to try to figure out if it is the fan or the BIOS […]

What a week! I spent most of it flying about the country talking with some of the top vendor CEOs in the tech business. In three days, I had the chance to sit down with John Chambers, Hector Ruiz, Bob Beauchamp and Bruce Claflin. While well be carrying their individual interviews in eWeek print and […]

These are tough times to be an IT pro, but there are, even now, an amazingly large number of excellent technology choices out there. After working through nearly 800 entries in this years eWEEK Excellence Awards, our team of Labs analysts and Corporate Partners picked the winners. This is the third year weve had the […]

The war in Iraq may be the most reported, most difficult-to-follow war in history. If previous wars were marked by limited news sources reporting through managed outlets, this war includes an overload of information coming from a global variety of sources. The handwritten war diaries have become Weblogs. Video and audio reporters, embedded or otherwise, […]

There is probably no greater example of the technological ties that bind the world and the political chasms that divide us than watching in real time the invasion of Iraq. Technology is a tool and as such can be wielded for communication, peace or war. It is the power of technology to extend your reach […]