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Ron Barker, Shawn Bodily, Bruce Spencer, and John Tesch IBM Advanced Technical Support team with over 50 years of experience in UNIX.

Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Retail On Demand Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the internal venture capitalist organization missioned to increase IBM business and technical solutions within the Retail industry. He was formerly with the IBM Global Services Linux and Grid EBO building IBM's initial entry into the Linux and Grid Computing market, IBM Global Services Application Services and IBM Sales and Distribution Technical Sales Support.

Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, offering development to ecosystem enablement.

As a result of his thought leadership and business and technical knowledge in the Open Source and Linux space, he was the Co-Leader of the IGS Open Source Community of Practice, an IBM internal grassroots knowledge network, where he co-leads community, communication and knowledge sharing activities for 7,100+ IBMers.

Not at work, Mr. Wong is very active in Asian American Civil Rights and is an officer for the Organization of Chinese Americans and was a past president of the University of California Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter. He enjoys traveling all over the world, eating at local mom and pop restaurants, shopping, learning about anything and everything, donating time to worthy causes and helping his family’s business.

Ali Arsanjani, PhD, is Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Services, specializing in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services. He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (5000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA. He is currently focusing on SOA Tooling with support for Modeling (SOMA), Assessments, Strategy and Planning, Governance, Architecture and Realization and their practical application to engagements inside and outside of IBM.

Antony Satyadas (Chief Competitive Marketing Officer IBM Software Group-Lotus, IBM Senior Certified Executive Architect, IEEE Senior Member) leads strategic competitive initiatives for IBM WPLC and Lotus. He has 22 years of worldwide consulting, marketing, and research experience with expertise on intelligent systems, knowledge innovation, workplace solutions, and enterprise service oriented architecture. He has 50+ publications and is a member/program chair for 30+ international scientific/advisory committees and IBM business partner advisory boards/architecture boards. His education is in marketing, computer/cognitive science, and electrical engineering. This blog focuses on the technical value, and dispels the myths and FUD introduced by Microsoft around IBM software products. Email FUD alerts to antony_satyadas@us.ibm.com

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems benchmarking and performance. Elisabeth Stahl is the program manager of performance marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 20 years.

Bill Higgins works for Rational Software where he builds software to support software development teams. Bill graduated from Penn State University in 2000 with a B.S. in computer science. Outside of work, Bill enjoys spending time with his wife and son, reading, and playing basketball.

Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Standards and Open Source for the IBM Corporation. The postings on this site are his own and don't necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, house painting, and musical tastes.

Bob Zurek is Director of Advanced Technologies with IBM Information Integration Solutions. In this role he has the responsibility for driving and executing the technical strategy for information integration solutions as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. Zurek is a frequent speaker on topics of middleware technologies and was VP of Product Management and Advanced Technologies at Ascential Software prior to the acquisition of Ascential by IBM. The postings on this site are his own and don't necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions.

Bobby Woolf is a member of IBM Software Services for WebSphere, consultants who help customers achieve success with WebSphere products. He is a co-author of Enterprise Integration Patterns and The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion. This blog discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today. Also see the companion wiki, Bobby Woolf: WebSphere SOA and J2EE in Practice.

Brian Peacock works for IBM Software Group in the Hursley Park development lab where he has delivered all sorts of solutions with all manner of technologies. He has many obsessions, including a passion for finding better (more positive) ways of problem solving, both inside and outside of work. His interests span from the technological (home automation, machinery, gadgets) to the ecological (permaculture, wildlife, renewable energy).

Carol Jones is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM's Software Group. She is the architect who led the startup of well-known products such as WebSphere Portal, IBM Workplace Services Express, WebSphere Studio, and WebSphere Application Server. Today, she is the lead architect for IBM Workplace. This blog is about what might be coming next in collaboration, social networking, and simple ways to make systems work together.

Pensando Software. Um blog para debater ideias, inovacoes e tendencias da industria de software.

Chris Ferris is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Software Standards Strategy group. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 25+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999. Chris currently chairs the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group, that is responsible for the development of the WS-I Basic Profile and he represents IBM on the WS-I Reliable Secure Profile WG. He co-chairs the W3C Web Services Policy WG and represents IBM on the W3C XML Protocols WG, where he serves as editor. He represents IBM on the OASIS WS-RX TC. He is a former elected member of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Additionally, he is an author and editor of the WS-Reliable Messaging specification and the IBM RAMP profile.

The postings on this site are his own and don't necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions.

This web log is a joint effort by the key technical architects and user experience professionals to open a direct line of communication with developers about the capabilities of user facing composite applications. The primary focus will be on Lotus Notes/Domino, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Expeditor, and future Lotus products to be named later. We will also be commenting on composite application trends that we see in the broader market.

Dave Bartlett leads the business development for the industry-wide challenge of Autonomic Computing, which focuses on making computing systems more self-managing and resilient, lowering the cost of ownership, and removing obstacles to growth and flexibility. His focus includes the infusion of Autonomic Computing standards and capabilities across the IBM product portfolio and IT industry.

Davor started his career as a software developer and architect in the early days of CASE, 4GL, and UNIX. His experience with technologies expanded to OO, UML, IE, SOA, RDBMS, II, and other acronyms. (Which explains why his writings do not contain any unexplained, three-letter abbreviations.) He is now a product manager with IBM and works with Common AD Tooling and DB Administration group. Besides work he is a world traveler with a long history of international relocations and many stories to tell about different parts of the world from San Marino to China including most of the continents. Additional hobbies include photography, remodeling, volleyball and other sports.

Doug Tidwell works for IBM's University Relations group, where he is actually paid to give away education and software to students and professors around the world. He's also the content coordinator for IBM's "Making the most of Eclipse" briefings, coming soon to a continent near you. A living testament to the power of inertia, he has been with IBM since 1989. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, cooking teacher Sheri Castle, and their ten-year old daughter Lily. He is the author of O'Reilly's XSLT and a co-author of Programming Web Services with SOAP, both of which make great gifts for your friends and loved ones.

He does not currently have, nor has he ever had, a posse.

Dr.Liang-Jie Zhang is a research staff member and the chair of the Services Computing Professional Interest Community (PIC) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has been leading Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Research for industry solutions and services since 2001. He has 20 issued patents and additional 30 patent applications in the areas of e-business, Web services, rich media, data management, and information appliances, and has published more than 80 technical papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Dr. Zhang chairs IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), which has been included in EI Compendex since 2005. He was the general co-chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) and the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005).

The dW sports desk is a collection of desk jockeys with sports "expertise" that cannot be contained. It's going to be all sports all the time around here. The seasonal cycles of the world's many sports tournaments, bowls, cups, series, meets, and events will provide the sports desk with ample material to comment on the human fascination with chasing and clutching baseballs, basketballs, footballs (of both sorts), golf balls, tennis balls, volleyballs, cricket balls, rugby balls, pucks, shuttlecocks, race horses, race cars, and people. There will be plenty of partisan cheering, ridiculous predictions, piping hot smack-talk, and whining -- lots of whining -- about sports, sports teams, and athletes and the games they play.

Dr. Eoin Lane, Senior Solution Engineer, is the lead for harvesting and developing of application pattern from key IBM SOA engagements and driving those patterns through IBM pattern governance process to accelerate adoption. Eoin also specializes in Model Driven Development (MDD), asset based development and Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) to facilitate SOA development.

The Extreme Blue program is IBM's premier internship for top-notch students pursuing software development and MBA degrees. The Extreme Blue program is an incubator for talent, technology and business innovation. You'll participate on a small team to conceive and deliver the technology, business plan and go to market strategy for an emerging business opportunity. Extreme Blue project teams mix business and technical disciplines with a variety of experience from undergraduate and graduate student interns--all lead by IBM's technical and business experts. Our cutting-edge work environment fosters innovation and collaboration. In short, The Extreme Blue program delivers on our key message by empowering our interns to do exactly that--start something BIG! For more information, check out the main Extreme Blue web site: ibm.com/extremeblue.

Glyn Normington works on IBM's Java runtimes in Hursley, England where he layed the groundwork for the shared classes support in IBM's Java 5. He is a member of the Core Platform Expert Group of the OSGi Alliance and helped design the modularity improvements in OSGi R4. He works in the Java Community Process as the spec. lead of JSR 291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java SE) and represents IBM on the Expert Groups for JSRs 277 and 294, which also relate to Java modularity. He previously worked on the CICS transaction processor where he helped to restructure the core components and introduced support for EJB and web services. He is keen on open source and has worked on Apache Axis and Eclipse Equinox. He holds a mathematics degree from Oxford University. The views in his blog are not necessarily those of IBM.

Grady is an IBM Fellow who has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable. Grady is the author of six best-selling books and has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design. At random times, the laws of physics do not apply to him. He is not dead yet.

Grant Hutchison is a Product Marketing Manager responsible for growing the application development community for IBM data servers including DB2 UDB, Cloudscape/Apache Derby, and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). Grant has a graduate degree in Software Engineering. He co-authored the first DB2 UDB Certification Guide (1996)and has held various technical and management assignments in the Toronto lab over the past 13 years. This blog will discuss the latest trends in database application development with a focus on Java, .NET, and Open Source languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby) and of course DB2, Cloudscape.

Guy Bowerman is a senior software engineer in IBM's Resolution Team, providing advanced technical support, product development, training and bug fixing for Informix products. Guy has worked for Informix Software since 1994 in the UK and US. This blog covers Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) application development, occasionally digressing into IDS on Windows and Linux, security and other random topics.

This web log contains editors’ comments and observations on papers published in the IBM Journal of Research and Development and the IBM Systems Journal. Readers are invited to contribute comments on these postings or on any paper ever published in the IBM Journals.

Bob Zurek is Director of Advanced Technologies with IBM Information Integration Solutions. In this role he has the responsibility for driving and executing the technical strategy for information integration solutions as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets. Zurek is a frequent speaker on topics of middleware technologies and was VP of Product Management and Advanced Technologies at Ascential Software prior to the acquisition of Ascential by IBM.

The postings on this site are his own and don't necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions.

Technical notes on Informix Dynamic Server by a worldwide team of Development and Technical Support engineers.

Discussions about Emerging Technologies that are having or will have an impact on future IT development. Members of IBM's Emerging Technologies as well as from other IBM organizations provide insights into technologies that will impact how you can do your work. Some emerging technologies prototypes are provided within the IBM Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) packages on alphaWorks.

This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to storage and storage networking hardware, software and services. Tony Pearson is the manager of brand marketing strategy for the IBM System Storage product line, and has been working in IBM storage for over 20 years.

Jason R McGee, Billy Newport, Brian Martin, Ann Black, Christopher Vignola and other members of the development team have joined together to provide insight into how WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) can be utilized and how it can contribute to your business. They are the senior architecture team that worked together to design and deliver XD, and are driving the future direction of the XD product and technologies.

The editors of the developerWorks Autonomic computing zone provide you with up-to-date, detailed news, tools, downloads, and events from the exciting world of self-managing systems.

Thoughts on IBM Lotus Software, Lotus Notes and Domino, Sametime, IBM Workplace Collaboration Services, WebSphere Portal, collaboration, and social software. Our Inside Lotus bloggers, Chris Reckling and Ted Stanton, bring you news and information from the hallways of Westford and Cambridge, MA. Chris is a product manager focusing on development tools for the emerging IBM Workplace platforms, while Ted is a premium service manager in Technical Support.
Together, they keep you up to date on the happenings around Lotus Software.

James Snell is a member of the IBM's Software Standards Strategy Group focusing on the prototype development of pre-emerging software technologies and standards. He is currently a member of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit for Web Services and Autonomic Computing development team and has made significant direct and indirect contributions to nearly every aspect of IBM's Web services and Service Oriented Architecture strategy as well as serving as a strong advocate for the practical application of key emerging technologies within and across IBM's own lines of business.

Jay Clark is a Software Developer at IBM developerWorks and a Games Technologist. He develops J2EE Web applications and supports their core development infrastructure. He is currently certified as an MCSE, CCNP, and is now working on completing his Associate's Degree in Computer Programming. Off the clock, Jay is a member of International Game Developers Association and is a freelance game developer, primarily using Unreal technologies.

Anthony (Joey) Bernal is a member of the IBM Software Services for Lotus, Portal Technology Team. Working with WebSphere Portal since the initial release of version 1.1, he has an extensive background in all aspects of WebSphere Portal and has worked with dozens of portal projects. Joey is an accomplished author, speaker, and instructor in various topics concerning WebSphere Portal and related technologies. He is co-author of Programming Portlets.

The focus of this blog is WebSphere Portal. It includes best practices and common issues with architecture, design, programming, installation and configuration, and on-going operations within a portal environment. Althought I expect it might wander a bit...

John Boyer is a Senior Product Architect for IBM Workplace Forms. He has co-authored and edited numerous W3C standards and is currently co-chair of the XForms working group. In 2001, John earned a Ph.D. in computer science, and he has published numerous journal, conference and professional papers on topics ranging from algorithmics to computer security to XML-related technologies.

Kelvin is currently IBM's CTO of Emerging Internet Software Standards, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is currently focused on the advancement, standardization and deployment of technologies based on XML and Web services and on other emerging internet technologies and standards. Kelvin is the co-Chair of the Web Services Security Technical Committee at OASIS. He is also the co-Chair of the Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee at OASIS. Kelvin is very interested in declarative application design (using XML grammars to design applications and user interfaces) and is investigating many related technologies. Kelvin also spends quite a lot of his time traveling and meeting with IBM customers, world-wide; a part of his job that he enjoys very much.

Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow, is responsible for an IBM World Wide SOA Center of Excellence. Kerrie has a B.A. in mathematics and a Juris Doctorate from Depaul University. Outside of work, Kerrie enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, two boys and a weekly basketball game with other dads.

Kevin J. Cummings is the Team Leader for Enterprise Platform Software Sales Enablement within IBM. This team focuses on encouraging and enabling WW Sales, Technical Sales, Architects and our global Business Partners to promote the value of a large software portfolio to customers and developers. Working closely with product development teams, marketing leads and sales, Kevin's team is responsible for raising awareness, developing skills training, and providing educational content to promote the Enterprise Platform Software (EPS) portfolio of products for System z. Kevin started working with Information Technology in 1980 and has been a developer, business analyst, architect, systems programmer and supported and researched tools and techniques for developers through most of his career. He has also led or managed individuals consistently during this time. Kevin has significant experience across multiple industries including Transportation, Manufacturing, Finance and been exposed to a myriad of customer environments working as a manager of customer advocates over the past 10 years at IBM. Traveling all over the world to various customer and training locations to promote the advantage of System z software reflects Kevin's perspective that “he works for the customer but is paid by IBM”!

Luciano Resende is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He has been involved on various projects across WPLC/Lotus and recently has been involved with Portal and Workplace efforts being one of the lead architects on the Common PIM Portlets project responsible for Mail and C&S connectivity to multiple backends. Luciano has recently started to look into the Apache Tuscany Project and SOA in general and how it can be applied to Collaboration Applications.

Mark Colan is an SOA Technology Evangelist for IBM Corporation. This blog is my musings of various emerging technologies and trends, especially the latest on SOA, as well as social technologies, RFIDs, browser enhancements, gadgets, and other innovations that are changing the way we live, work, and play.

By popular demand, I will also post topics reflecting my personal interests in travel, food, music, etc. I hope you have fun with this part of the blog...

Mark Weitzel is an architect in IBM Tivoli's Autonomic Computing group focusing on open standards and open source. He is currently driving an initiative to create, which will focus on systems management. In addition to being a committer on the Monitoring sub-project of the Test and Performance Tools Platform, he is the IBM lead architect for the Apache Muse project, a reference implementation of the Oasis Web Services Distributed Management specification. Mr. Weitzel has published numerous articles and is co-author of Enterprise Java Programming with WebSphere, Second Edition.

Martin Gomez is an Advisory Learning Specialist at IBM Global Services in Shanghai, China, as part of the global Application Services Learning Development team. Driving from his previous experiences in both industry and academe, Martin is involved in learning consulting, instructional design and content development, learning technology, and learning facilitation. As a result of his thought leadership, business and technical knowledge and skills, Martin is the team leader of an IBM internal media distribution effort, and leads the IBM Design Innovation community. Martin loves good food, likes to travel and is interested in anything that has to do with art, design, business, science and technology.

Mary Beth Raven is the lead product designer for the "Hannover" project, a redesign of Lotus Notes. She joined the Notes team in 2005. Prior to joining the Notes team she was the lead designer for the IBM Workplace Managed Client and Workplace Messaging. Before joining the Workplace team, she was the Lotus Sametime designer for five years. Mary Beth has a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

Melinda Pfeiffer is an editor for IBM developerWorks, where she acquires, edits, and publishes developer-centric content on XForms and Service Component Architecture and Service Data Objects (SCA/SDO). Melinda has an M.A. in English and a B.A. in English/Writing and Editing, both from NC State University. When she's not hard at work editing, Melinda spends as much time as possible with her husband and three young children. She particularly enjoys photography, playing sports (especially softball, tennis, and golf), dinner parties, and traveling.

Hints, tips and communiqué: Shirley Fox, Greg Rybczynski and Regina Moliff, of the System p (pSeries) Customer Care Team in Austin, provide communications from their team along with their thoughts, tools and insights from their decades of experience helping and empowering technical customers.

Michael O'Connell is the founding Editor-in-chief and editorial director of IBM's developerWorks site, which launched in 1999. Before joining developerWorks, he served as founding Editor-in-chief of IDG's JavaWorld and a founding editor of SunWorld Online -- two of the industry's first successful Web-based technology magazines. He's been a computer journalist since 1991.

Random thoughts on modeling - the how to's, the do's and don'ts, and the fun parts. Contributors develop modeling tools in IBM Rational. If you want to know how to do do cool things using tools like RSA, this blog's for you.

Developers Kevin Haverlock and Jared Jurkiewicz bring you news and information on WebSphere Software development with a focus on Ajax and additional Web 2.0 technologies.

Nora Mikes is the editor for the IBM developerWorks Power Architecture zone, which launched in 2004. She has never kept a blog, and wonders what exactly she will do with this one. Unless or until a more radical plan comes to mind (or evolves on its own), she plans to use it to comment on Power Architecture, industry, and zone news and events, and to communicate with readers. She solemnly vows to update at least two times each week.

Patrick Flanders is the editor of the Architecture and SOA & Web services zones on developerWorks. He is also the host of the WebSphere Techincal Podcast series.

Patrick Mueller is a Senior Technical Staff member in IBM's Software Group, reporting into the Websphere organization. He has worked for IBM for over twenty years on a wide variety of software development projects, including application programming on CICS, natural language processing, gui editor development, distributed processing frameworks, web enablement technologies, virtual machines, and embedded software development.

But Patrick's favorite topical area in software development is the development of tools for programmers: "I'd rather write software that helps me write software, than write software".

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Rawn Shah is developerWorks' Community Editor focusing on how to develop greater interaction between our members through the many community services we have such as blogs, forums, user groups, wikis and other services. He's been a network administrator, a systems programmer, a Web project manager, an author, a technology writer and editor. He survived the dotcom days in his own startup before becoming a full-time writer and later joining IBM as an editor. In his spare time, he is also a student and teacher of Japanese swordfighting.

Rich is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group responsible for accessibility strategy and architecture for Software Group. Rich chairs the IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board (AARB) and is an IBM Master Inventor. Rich has broad responsibilities spanning all business units withn IBM and is a working member in W3C WAI and HTML working groups as well as the OASIS ODF Accessibility sub team. Rich led Java accessibility development at IBM including the IBM/Sun accessibility collaboration. Rich is leading the DHTML accessibility effort in the W3C and runs an architecture team within IBM responsible for accessibility for the Web, Eclipse, UNIX, Windows, and Java platforms.

Rick Hightower serves as chief technology officer for ArcMind Inc, a training and consulting company the specializes in JEE, JSF, Spring and Hibernate. He is coauthor of the once popular book Java Tools for Extreme Programming, about applying extreme programming to JEE development, and coauthor of Professional Struts. He writes a popular blog on JRoller called Sleepless in Tucson and is a regular contributor to IBM developerWorks. Rick is also on the editorial board of the JDJ (and has written a few JDJ editorials on JSF, Spring, EJB3, GWT, etc.) as well as a founding editor of ServerZone. Rick enjoys writing about and researching JEE, Hibernate, AOP and Spring. Most of all, Rick likes to write code. Rick enjoys writing about himself in the third person. Rick. Rick. Rick. Rick. See Rick code. Code Rick! Code!

Josef Scherpa is the lead designer of Lotus Sametime. He joined the team in 2006, midway through the 7.5 development and is currently working the design of upcoming releases. Prior to joining the Sametime team, he was the lead designer for IBM Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting, which followed his start at IBM as a Usability Specialist in 2002. Josef has a MS in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University and a BS in Technical Communitcation from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Welcome to the blog where IBMers exchange viewpoints, share their perspectives to provide more insight around service oriented architecture solutions, and delve into a range of SOA-related subjects. We want you to speak out on SOA through comments in the blog -- from where your organization stands on SOA adoption, to your challenges and experiences -- to share with the larger community the impact of SOA on your marketplace. Sandy Carter is IBM's Vice President, SOA & WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels. Hear Sandy discuss the basics of SOA, and address the key questions companies are asking by tuning into getting to the Heart of SOA. Understand how SOA works under the hood to improve operations. Discover the entry points to SOA and how companies worldwide are making SOA pay right away.

Sanjay Bose works for the IBM Software Strategy division and leads the Enterprise Integration Design Center to identify IBM Software portfolio requirements, and develop solution components and assets by engaging enterprise clients and IBM Software product development laboratories. He has over 12 years of IT industry experience, primarily focused on creating product architecture and design, articulating technical strategy, and designing enterprise application systems using distributed technologies. His areas of expertise include SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, Web services, J2EE, and e-business technologies. He has co-authored the book SOA Compass and has published articles on IBM developerWorks and Systems Journal. He lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA and his spare time is spent with philosophical ramblings, books, movies and his Sony PlayStation.

Scott Laningham has worked as a radio journalist and musician since the early 1980s, and joined IBM in 1999 in a desire to experience Y2K up close. In radio, he has been a contributor to programming on Public Radio International and CBS radio. As a musician he has worked with some great Texas artists and even shared the stage with comedian Rodney Dangerfield during a standup tour to do 75 dollar rim shots for his jokes. Scott edited the developerWorks newsletters for three years, and now is holed up in his walk-in closet studio spearheading developerWorks podcast programming.

Simon works in the CTO organization of Rational Software and is responsible for the business-level tooling strategy. Simon has undertaken a number of standards-related activities for both Rational Software and now IBM in the area of XML (W3C Schema working group), Web Services (RosettaNet architecture team) and Modeling (OMG UML and OCL teams). Simon has also written articles on the subjects of business modeling, software modeling and SOA and is interested to see where and when these threads will combine.

Susan Visser is the IBM Press Program Manager for Information Management. Previously, she ran the DB2 Certification program and continues to give exams to IBM employees in Toronto as well as at two large conferences every year. Susan has published two DB2 books and is now working with 40+ authors to get others published as well. Currently Susan has helped get at least 25 books published.

Terry Goldman is a 6 veteran of Rational Software where he is a Technical Evangelist for Rational ASEAN/SA. He has expertise in RUP, configuration management systems and life-cycle systems development. Terry graduated from San Jose State University in 1993 with a B.S. in computer science. Outside of work, Terry enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and sailing in Singapore and ASEAN.

Bharath Duggirala is a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM India Software Labs in Bangalore. Since June 2005, he is involved with providing world-wide support for WebSphere Community Edition, which is based on Open Source JEE Application server Apache Geronimo. He is a co-author of the redbook WebSphere InterChange Server Migration Scenarios. He is certified in IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.0 and holds a graduate degree in Engineering from the College of Engineering, Andhra University. He blogs here, sharing his Active Experience, as the scroll of Life unrolls in the Eternal Enterprise!

With IBM's recent announcement to support the Apache Geronimo project, the company has taken a dramatic leadership role in leveraging open source development in their business. This team blog, with contributions from key IBM developers/committers, testers, support, and business managers, will share a wide variety of news, ideas, thoughts, and opinions that are developing in this exciting new part of the business. You can expect that this blog will have a very wide and sometimes controversial range of subjects dealing with project milestones, the overall business model, the open source movement, IBM's initiatives and strategy, and other subjects around this initiative. Now sit back, and relax, and open your mind to... The Geronimo Experience.

Todd Watson is in his 14th year with IBM. He began his career working on two software magazines, for which he wrote on a variety of business technology topics before joining IBM's Internet division in 1995. He later led the development of the IBM e-business Web site, and most recently has been responsible for helping drive the strategy and optimization of the IBM Software Group Web presence. His longstanding personal mission at IBM has been to use the Web to drive business effectiveness and efficiencies, and to better serve IBM customers leveraging the unique capabilities of the Internet. He can be reached at turbotodd@us.ibm.com

Tom Glover is the Senior Program Manager of Web Services Standards for IBM Software Group. Currently Tom serves as IBM Director, President, and Chairman of the Board within the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) Organization.

David Kovach, Senior User Experience Designer with IBM's developerWorks organization, is a user experience multidisciplinarian currently involved in community, personalization and UCD process projects. His background is in the web-based enterprise software arena having been raised in the wonderful world of SAP. Much of his formal experience was in Silicon Valley - a hotbed for UE, UCD, UI, HF, Ux, HCI, and home to the 13 acronyms that were created in the think-tanks in the last 2 minutes. He work's hard to shed personal views, challenge executive beliefs and takes a strong stand everyday for what users want and need.

Thoughts and opinions on products across the WebSphere brand with a wide range of contributers across multiple products, including WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server and more, as well as across multiple specialties, including technical architects, marketing, management, and user experience.