Timothy Prickett Morgan
Type of Fellow: Research Fellow
Description:
Timothy Prickett Morgan is President of Guild Companies Inc and Editor in Chief of its IT Jungle publications.
I have been keeping a keen eye on the midrange system and server markets for 16 years now, and I am still not bored. I have buried my share of publishers over the years, but I have always, thankfully, had the same job: writing about servers and operating systems.
I was one of the founding editors of The Four Hundred, the industry's first subscription-based monthly newsletter devoted exclusively to the IBM AS/400 minicomputer, established in 1989. For several years, I was the midrange industry analyst for Midrange Computing (now defunct), and its editor for Monday Morning iSeries Update, a weekly IBM midrange newsletter, and for Wednesday Windows Update, a weekly Windows enterprise server newsletter.
For the past decade, I also performed in-depth market and technical studies on behalf of computer hardware and software vendors that helped them bring their products to the AS/400 market or move them beyond the IBM midrange into the computer market at large.
In my copious spare time outside of IT Jungle, I am also the editor of Unigram.X, published by British publisher Datamonitor, which licenses IT Jungle's editorial for that newsletter as well as for its ComputerWire daily news feed and for its Computer Business Review monthly magazine. I am also currently Principal Analyst, Server Platforms & Architectures, for Datamonitor's research unit, and I regularly does consulting work on behalf of Datamonitor's AskComputerWire consulting services unit. I began working for ComputerWire as a stringer for its Computergram International daily newsletter back in 1989.
I have been a contributing editor to many industry magazines over the years, including BusinessWeek Newsletter for Information Executives, Infoperspectives, Business Strategy International, Computer Systems News, IBM System User, Midrange Computing, and Midrange Technology Showcase, among others.
I studied aerospace engineering, American literature, and technical writing at the Pennsylvania State University and has a BA in English. I am not always as serious as this picture might lead you to believe, as my wife, my two children, Australian shepherd, and my many colleagues around the globe will attest to. I think information technology is interesting and fun, and I look forward into taking the skills I have honed in this market into new ones.