Acknowledgments

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First and foremost, Sten gives thanks to his wife Maj and Per to his fiancée Kristin because they have been extremely patient with us during this book's prolonged period of gestation. It wasn't just writing the book that we've been occupied with—it was writing it in addition to doing business as usual in our small and busy company. You can imagine that we haven't been very helpful at home when it comes to cleaning, vacuuming, washing clothes, or cooking. We haven't been partying much either, not only because of the book but also because we wrote it during the high season of our favorite sport, which is bandy. You don't know what bandy is? Wait until you see it. Bandy consists of eleven guys on each side, skating over an ice-covered field the same size as a soccer field, playing a small red ball with curved sticks. It's a truly great sport, much faster than ice hockey. Maj and Kristin, now the book is ready and the bandy season is almost over; we'll make it up to you, promise!

On the business side, we have so many people to thank. James Utzschneider, we'd like to start by thanking you, because you were the first one at Microsoft to make us understand that we had something that might be of interest even outside our own country. To Scott Swanson, also at Microsoft, we say thank you for many things. In connection with the book, we thank you because you set up that meeting that allowed us to present our ideas to a large group of Microsoft program managers and group program managers. The feedback from that group made us finally decide to translate our first technical report into English.

To Drew Fletcher and his group at Microsoft in Redmond, we say thank you because you're such good and valued proponents of our architecture internally in the Visual Studio group and such consistent users of the technical report that was the basis of this book.

Hugh Teegan, formerly in the COM+ group at Microsoft in Redmond, now involved in secret endeavors, has been a formidable resource in giving fast and correct answers to any question we have sent to him. And we mean fast! If we sent him an e-mail at nine o'clock in the morning, our time, he sent an answer at a quarter past nine, even though that means one o'clock in the morning Redmond time. Hugh, do you never sleep?

We'd also like to say thank you to Microsofties Jon Roskill for his ongoing support and Jennifer Ritzinger for setting up our first meeting with Microsoft Press. A big thank you also goes to Eric Stroo, our Microsoft Press acquisitions editor, for helping us get started and for seeing through our not so idiomatic English to press for our book to be accepted by Microsoft Press.

Another set of thanks goes to Mats Göthe, Peter Goubert, Magnus Christerson, and Roger Oberg at Rational for the support they gave us and our architecture in deciding to include tangible support for Windows DNA in their Rational Rose 2000e product, building that support on our architecture. Given that Rational as a company and Rational Rose as a product are all about architecture, their choosing our architecture for that support was heartwarming.

Turning back to Sweden, we'd like to thank so many people that it hurts to mention only a few of them. But without the support of Lars Backhans, Microsoft Sweden, the book would never have become a reality. That's because Lars gave us great support in 1995 when we started our semiannual seminar event called Client/Server Training, and without that event we would never have had a chance to develop the ideas we put into this book. Lars left that group several years ago to give room to Wolfram Meyer and Göran Ölander, and the support they have given us in getting access to any information or people we needed—in Sweden or elsewhere—has been just outstanding. We'd also like to thank several Swedish developers who gave us valuable feedback concerning our technical report, thus helping us improve the message and quality of this book. We especially thank Andreas Bergenarp, Kasper Blom, and Jimmy Nilsson for their contributions.

The two remaining thanks go to our project editor Kathleen Atkins and to our technical editor Jack Beaudry. Their job must have been extremely difficult, trying to edit prose written by two Swedes about new and difficult concepts. Both of them have improved the book immensely—Kathleen by improving our language in general and by making our English so much more idiomatic and understandable, Jack by making so many wise suggestions and by helping us avoid technical errors and pitfalls. If Microsoft Press should ever offer us a chance to author another book, we're going to ask for the two of you to be our editors again. Thank you!



Designing for scalability with Microsoft Windows DNA
Designing for Scalability with Microsoft Windows DNA (DV-MPS Designing)
ISBN: 0735609683
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 133

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