Eric Lundquist

As Jeff Moad writes in this weeks cover story on IBMs strategy, the real challenge for the company is to maintain technology leadership while navigating its migration up the business-process-consulting food chain. In our special report on IBM and in our lead eWeek Labs review of IBMs latest WebSphere application server, we take a close […]

How will 2002 be remembered in the technology community? The year was marked by evaporating budgets, layoffs and an overall grumpiness that the promise of a technology-driven economy was shattered. In this, our final issue of the year (weve combined Dec. 23 and 30 issues), weve asked the eWEEK Labs and News teams to look […]

You would have about as much luck controlling instant messaging use in your company as you would convincing your son that doing his homework while keeping nine IM windows open is not a pathway to academic success. Given that you wont have much luck stemming IM use at work but knowing that your company can […]

Juggling is currently one of IBMs favorite activities. The company must juggle extolling the benefits of enterprise applications with On Demand computing, where applications are hosted elsewhere. The company must juggle the independence of its Global Services business with the need to sell more IBM hardware and software. And it must juggle the offerings from […]

What do hackers in Beijing, Sao Paulo, Madrid and Kuala Lumpur have in common? They were among the hackers who launched more than 50,000 attacks against our OpenHack 4 Web site. And, except for two relatively minor penetrations, all those attacks failed. As the version number suggests, this was our fourth interactive security evaluation in […]

My first experience with a tablet-size computer was with the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100. From 1983 through the early 90s, these notebook computers were the hardy companions of journeyman journalists. They were both friend and enemy. You could spill coffee on the keyboard and beer in the acoustic coupler, and theyd still work. Even […]

Call it Comdex lite. With many fewer attendees, fewer companies and fewer bucks for the shows owners to keep the event moving forward, this years annual event in Vegas was the easiest to navigate in years. Gone were the days of long cab lines and gaggles of nerds clamoring around the booths for a cheapo […]

This issue includes our technology outlook for 2003. As the cover of our report shows, we see some reasons for an optimistic parting of the clouds next year. But like many trying to guess where were headed in the new year, our expectations are tempered by uncertainties caused by a sputtering economy, a questioning of […]

Microsoft has done well at the courthouse lately. after years of suits, countersuits, antitrust charges and countercharges, Bill Gates has left the courthouse with his company intact and his hold on the desktops of the world firmly in place. In her article “Keeping an Eye on Microsoft,” Caron Carlson explains the ramifications of the U.S. […]

Last week, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano laid down a $10 billion bet that the company will be the winner in the next round of enterprise computing. IBM is betting that it can drive its “On Demand” concept of computing to become the de facto standard when IT architects start noodling around with ideas of how […]