In the words of Band Aid, "It's Christmas time ..." and I'm now officially on vacation (hence the time to write a blog entry!) However, it'll be a busy festive season for me. We're in the final stages of releasing the first GA of JBossESB in January; I'm a reviewer on the Web Services track for WWW 2007 (8 papers!); a reviewer for Dependability and Security in e-Government (2 papers); I'm finalising a new book proposal with a couple of friends; I want to submit a paper to HPTS 2007 (I'm on the PC too); I want to submit a paper to the W3C workshop on Web Services for Enterprise Computing (I'm on the PC for that too). Plus, I'm sure I'm forgetting something!
Anyway, all of this blog writing is taking me away from paper reviews! Back to the grind.
I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.