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A C KNO WLEDGEMENTS

leader Rod Johnson, former CEO of SpringSource, now part
of VMware, for illustrating how open source works, along with
Brian Behlendorf, an original member of the Apache Web
server project; Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO at WSO2, for his un-
derstanding of lightweight Web services; and Executive Vice
President Paul Cormier at Red Hat for his perspective on early

Web search operations. And thanks also to Marty Goetz, pres-
ident of the former Applied Data Research, who ushered
a newcomer into the complexities of large system software
and who, many years ago, was instrumental in starting soft-
ware’s march as a force independent of any particular brand
of hardware.
Much of the thinking in this book found its first expression

in truncated form in the United Business Media publication
InformationWeek, my current employer. Two editors there as-
sisted me in direct and indirect ways to make this book pos-
sible. One is Art Wittmann, now editor of InformationWeek
Analytics and a steadying voice in the debate over the direc-
tion of IT, the network, and the cloud; the second is Chris
Murphy, an editor with rare skill at working with the strengths
(and weaknesses) of writers. Thanks also to Government CIO
and Plug into the Cloud Editor John Foley at Information-

Week.com, who helped guide the process that led to this
book’s creation, and Editor in Chief Rob Preston, who in a pe-
riod of constrained resources still gave the go-ahead and of-
fered encouragement and advice.
As much as I am indebted to them, it is still correct to say
that any mistakes in this work are purely my own and no one
else is accountable.

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