OpenSolaris™ Bible

Acknowledgments

Many people contributed directly and indirectly to this book. We would first like to thank Bob Elliot, executive editor at Wiley, for letting us write this book, and our agent, David Fugate of LaunchBooks Literary Agency, for helping to make the project possible. Our editors, Maryann Steinhart, Dassi Zeidel, and Luann Rouff, excellently guided us through the writing and revision process, while Peter Baer Galvin provided invaluable technical feedback and corrections.

Additionally, we would like to thank the following people, who reviewed one or more chapters: Alexandre Chartre, Bonnie Corwin, Thorsten Früauf, Moinak Ghosh, Susan Kamm-Worrell, and John Levon. Thank you, also, to Steve McKinty for providing the content on Open HA Cluster Geographic Edition. Any remaining errors are, of course, our own.

A special thanks goes to Sanjay Nadkarni, who provided the camera Dave used in completing the examples in Chapter 5 during a trip to Sun's Broomfield campus.

We also want to acknowledge the thousands of engineers over the past 40 years who have contributed to the code that is now OpenSolaris. Additionally, we would like to recognize Sun Microsystems' courageous step of open sourcing the Solaris operating system to create OpenSolaris, and the combined wisdom and numerous contributions of the OpenSolaris community. Although we are employees of Sun and members of the OpenSolaris community, the contents of this book are our own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of these ...