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Colin Barker

Colin Barker

Senior Reporter, ZDNet UK

Brief job description:

Finding good news stories and reporting on them

Areas of expertise:

CRM, ERP and other application areas; storage technology; hardware interests include high-end and leading-edge systems; and everything that is written with web 2.0 and the "cloud" in mind. 

One person I'd love to interview is:

Someone from Microsoft who says something interesting and possibly even true (they are nice people really). Right now an interview with Mark Hurd of HP is high on my agenda and socially, the writer John Irving.

In 10 words:

I like being paid to do something I enjoy so much.

In 2009...

I'd like to go somewhere I've never been before. 

Most interesting place visited on business:

IBM's research labs in Zurich for professional reasons. Also Taiwan for personal and professional reasons.

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