| Many of the ideas and details presented in this book are based on the WebSphere and Domino installations designed by IBM for its internal and commercial users. Therefore, we would like to thank all those involved with the design of these IBM implementations . Richard Wood of IBM Global Services was our most dedicated reviewer. "Woody" looked over almost all the revisions and gave us many valuable comments. Caleb Barlow and Brian White of Lotus reviewed the manuscript from the Domino and Lotus Collaboration perspective to make sure we were not missing anything major in the manuscript. We would like to thank our IBM management chains for the support needed to make an undertaking like this happen. Our first-line managers Boris Vishnevsky, Woody Wood, and Donald Hooker; our second-line management Beth Hazuka; and our third-line managers (directors or principals in IBM) Susan Gryzbowski and Anil Cheriyan. Paul Dantzig, manager of the High-Volume Web Serving group at IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York, graciously allowed us to include much of his work on the IBM Web sites for the Olympic Games, Grand Slam Tennis events, and other sports events in Chapter 15, "Implementing High-Volume Web Sites." Michael Haley, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Global Executive Grid Computing,A0provided expert advice on the sections in Chapter 15 relating to Grid Computing and the design aspects of On Demand Web systems. Rohit Sahasrabudhe of IBM Austin, Texas, provided much of the material for Appendix F on installing Lotus Workplace 1.1. Carol Zimmet, Louis Bradbard, and Martha Moreau of Lotus created some of the figures that help describe Lotus collaboration products and function. Mark Feinman and Chris Pepin of IBM contributed to the information in Chapter 15 on IBM's internal implementation of Lotus Web Conferencing and Instant Messaging, respectively. Tony Payne of Lotus Sametime Development helped mightily with the implementation of our Lotus Web conferencing commercial offering described in Chapter 15. Christopher Ahrendt helped with the design of the WAS MQ cluster diagram given at the end of Chapter 7. Tony Cusato of IBM Global Services contributed to Chapter 15 on the use of Domino for the Web sites used for the Olympics. Kevin Finnegan of IBM AMS (Application Management Systems) contributed to the sections on IBM's WebSphere Portal technology. Charles Lin and Melva Jeter of Groupware Support at IBM Boulder provided review from the aspect of a hosted solution provider. Charles installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.01 on a lab server at IBM Boulder and was able to verify all the installation steps and make screenshots for Appendix E on the WebSphere Portal Server. He made his tests on a Redhat Linux Advanced Server 2.1. Charles also installed Lotus Workplace 1.1 at the Boulder lab and was able to give us information for Appendix F on Lotus Workplace 1.1. Charles did point out that since the Lotus Workplace 1.1 installation included the configuration for the LDAP directory and DB2, that installation was more automated. Much of the information on Lotus products was taken with permission from the Lotus technical Web site at http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus (also accessible via its former name of http://www.notes.net). Leigh Ann Fowler of IBM/Lotus Software Group Media Relations served as our "window" for help in obtaining a Lotus executive for both an author of the Foreword for our book and for an IBM "Executive Champion" for this IBM Press book. Finally, we would like to thank Steve Robinson, Vice President of IBM Software Services for Lotus, who not only wrote the Foreword for our book, but also acted as the IBM "Executive Champion" for our book ”a new post required for books published under the IBM Press logo. | 