Acknowledgments
I had little appreciation for the amount of work, the extent of the commitment, or the demands of faith that would be required to complete this book when I first submitted a proposal to Sun Press on the topic of distributed computing. At the time, in the fall of 2000, the world seemed to me far different than it does today, as I'm sure is the case for much of America if not humanity. Since then, world events and the unfolding of circumstances in my own life have forced a personal reevaluation of so many notions I may have held dear at the time. But some things have remained constant, not the least of which is my gratitude to those who have influenced and contributed to this work.
My decade (1994–2003) working for Sun Microsystems ...
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