future directions. He has written extensively on migration strategy, assessments, 
and application selection.
Tom Schwaller 
is a Linux IT Architect and EMEA Linux Desktop Technical 
Leader living in Munich, Germany. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical 
Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and been a research 
assistant at the Technical University of Munich in the field of high performance 
computing (using Linux Beowulf clusters). After that he was editor in chief of the 
German Linux Magazine (from 1996 2000) and site manager of 
linux community.de. He is also cofounder of the Linux New Media AG and joined 
IBM in 2001. He has worked with free software for more than 15 years and with 
Linux for more than 10 years. He is a big fan of scripting languages like Python, 
Ruby, Groovy, and Boo, and is a Linux hardware collector (Intel Dual Celeron 
and two Thinkpads, Xbox, AMD 
K6 and Athlon 64, several Alphas (DEC 
2000/PC 150) AXPpci33, LX 164, Sun Ultra 5, Motorola Powerstack, Apple G3, 
IBM 43P 270, IBM B50, SGI Indy R4000, Cobalt Cube, HP PA RISC 32/64, 
StrongArm PDA, Amiga, and hopefully some Power4/5 and zSeries machines in 
the not so distant future).
Acknowledgements
The following people provided significant support for this project:
Stephen Hochstettler
, ITSO Project and Linux Team Leader: For his vision and 
support.
Greg Kelleher
, Senior Program Manager Worldwide Linux Desktop Strategy 
and Market Development: For sponsoring the project and guiding development 
of the content outline and scope for this book.
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