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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To all the outstanding people in the Silicon Valley and else-
where who have tried to educate me through e-mail, phone
interviews, numerous face-to-face sit-down sessions, and the
occasional beer at the Thirsty Bear or 21st Amendment, I owe
an everlasting debt of thanks.
They include Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta, who illus-
trated what in-memory software could do versus disk-store
systems; early Linux advocate Mark Towfiq, who co-led the
modernization of e-commerce at Walmart.com alongside

Ari Zilka, currently Terracotta’s CTO; Bogomil Balkansky at
VMware for explaining key elements of virtualization; Winston
Bumpus, president of the Distributed Management Task Force
(and chief of standards at VMware); Simon Crosby, CTO at
the XenSource unit of Citrix Systems, also for highlighting key
elements of virtualization; Margaret Lewis, at AMD, for a
cross-vendor point of view on industry trends; the open source

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