Eric Lundquist

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is thinking big. Speaking before a group of about 300 customers assembled at the American Museum of Natural History here last week, the CEO—and newly named chairman, effective Jan. 1—outlined a $10 billion bet the Armonk, N.Y., company is making on what it calls “On Demand” computing. In a carefully scripted […]

Looks to me like Microsoft went two for two in the legal department over the last couple weeks. First, on October 25, Microsoft escaped with only a $50 fine for plastering butterfly shaped advertising decals all over the NYC sidewalks as part of a promotion for its latest rev of its MSN Internet service. $50? […]

New York—Speaking before a group of about 300 customers assembled at the American Museum of Natural History, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano outlined a $10 billion bet the company is making aimed at making “On-Demand” computing an enterprise computing byword. In a carefully scripted presentation, which did not include any opportunity for media questions, Palmisano described […]

Early last week, a bunch of unknown hackers launched a brute-force attack against the 13 computer sites that run the Internet. This digital equivalent of the human-wave attacks of physical war staggered seven of the sites, but the Internet kept running, with most users unaware of the assault. Thats the good news. The bad news […]

The secret of Dells success is that there is not really that much of a secret to how the company operates. Through science and intuition, the execs look for market segments that have reached critical mass in terms of volume. Once a decision to jump into a segment is reached, the company turns on its […]

The advice from the annual Gartner Symposium in Orlando last week fell into two categories. First, Gartner has latched onto the idea of creating a real-time enterprise as a way to gain business efficiencies to rekindle a lackluster economy. Second, companies need to place small and thoughtful bets in their IT spending rather than try […]

An uncertain economy, new technologies and new business requirements add up to a job market that few can fathom. Are you better off taking a lower-paying, less demanding position, or should you hold out even longer for something appropriate to your skill level? And what skills will you need in the coming years to make […]

Open-source advocates championing their approach to software as inherently more secure would use each new vulnerability in Microsofts proprietary Windows software to buttress their arguments. The Code Red and Nimda worms had a feast on unpatched Microsoft Internet Information Services servers last year, while the open-source Apache servers sat untouched. Proof, said advocates, that proprietary […]

What would be the cyber-defense equivalent of having grandma take off her shoes at the airport as a security measure? Building a federal network operations center that filtered Internet traffic to find bad guys comes to mind. No sooner would the federal NOC be built than cyber-terrorists would find a way into, around or through […]

What will be the impact of Web services? On the one hand, technologists with a decade or two of experience contend Web services will just be an extension of architectures developed in the 1980s. On the other hand, venture capitalists and technology pundits hope Web services will be the spark that reignites the high-tech economic […]