I love these appeals to the "complexity of doing business in Alaska." If you want to live in remote villages or places with hostile weather and envir…

- Steven Pearlstein

I think we should be clear: Companies will still need software that furthers their corporate goals and even gives them competitive advantage. That wo…

- Steven Pearlstein

I think I hear the voice of an environmentalist. Why stop with Alaska, however. Why don't we depopulate Montana, Idaho, Washington, Colorado the Cali…

- Steven Pearlstein

No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.

- Steven Pearlstein

Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you need surge capacity. B…

- Steven Pearlstein

If what you paid for an engine that could go 120 is significantly higher than the cost of an engine that would get you to 90, then you are "wasting" …

- Steven Pearlstein

It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning of the computer era a…

- Steven Pearlstein