Acknowledgments

First, we want to thank Santiago Comella-Dorda, Vivian Martin, Len Bass, Felix Bachmann, Paul Clements, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford, Lutz Wrage, Russ Bunting, Dennis Smith, Liam O'Brien, Scott Tilley, David Zubrow, Brad Clark, and Wolf Goethert for their contribution of chapters in this book. Many people also contributed material either directly or indirectly, including John Robert, Patrick Place, Scott Hissam, Kurt Wallnau, Mark McLaughlin, and Robert Graham. We also owe a debt of gratitude to our manager, John Foreman, for his strong support, without which we would not have succeeded; and also the strong support we received from Scott Vesper, Lester Reagan, and Jon Dittmer.

Special thanks go to our in-house editors, Len Estrin and Pennie Walters, for their efforts in making our writing appear acceptable, Barbara White and Suzanne Couturiaux for making our work presentable, Shelia Rosenthal for helping us with the bibliography, Peter Gordon from Addison-Wesley for keeping the effort on target, and the Addison-Wesley production team, including Elizabeth Ryan, John Fuller, and Karin Hansen, and Evelyn Pyle and Rob Mauhar.

We are also grateful to the reviewers, whose insightful comments are reflected throughout our work: Thomas Soller, Ed Morris, Steven Seacord, Edward Neubecker, and Peter Bye. We also happily acknowledge the contributions of members not already mentioned of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) COTS-Based Systems initiative. Last, we are indebted to Steve Cross, the director of the SEI, for providing an environment in which software engineering theory can be hardened in practice and promoted in public.