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About the Authors. DAN WOODS, a seasoned CTO, has built technology for companies ranging from Time Inc. New Media to TheStreet.com. He has managed the product development cycle from initial requirements through sales for sales for web sites and software products designed for the publishing and financial services industries. Dan has also navigated all phases of the business cycle: crafting stategy and budgets, building and managing large development teams, writing patent applications, negotiating large vendor agreements, operating data centers, communicating with board members, raising money, and selling and marketing a product. Dan is the author of two books and a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and other publications.

GAUTAM GULIANI is a software architect and developer with over 10 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise grade to business problems in publising, finance and education areas. He currently works as Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a Washington Post company.

SARAH SHERMAN was the production editor and proofreader for Open Source for the Enterprise. Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor. Marlowe Shaeffer and Darren Kelly provided quality control. Judy Hoer wrote the index. Lydia Onofrei provided production assistance.

MIKE KOHNKE designed the cover of this book. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout in Adove InDesign CS.

Phyllis McKee designed the interior layout and the template. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technnologies. The text font is Adobe’s Berkley Book; the heading font is Trade Gothic. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS and using the ORA hand font.