How This Book Is Organized

The Team That Wrote This Redbook

This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center.

Oscar Cepeda is an Advisory Software Engineer and Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide in areas including OS/2, OS/2 Warp Server, WorkSpace On-Demand, and JavaOS for Business. Before joining the ITSO in 1995, Oscar worked in IBM US Availability Services as an I/T Specialist. He has 11 years of experience with IBM.

Jean-Pierre Cabani\x8e is the head of computer support at Philips Microwave Limeil (PML) in France. A long-time IBM customer, he successfully ported the manufacturing process tracking system he developed under VM-ESA used in PML to an OS/2 LAN Server-managed network.

Frank Ermisch is a Systems Engineer with RWG GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. Before joining RWG, he worked for IBM and Hewlett Packard as a consultant for many years. He has worked with OS/2 since Version 1.0 and is an IBM Certified OS/2 and LAN Server Engineer. His areas of expertise include heterogeneous networking, CID, systems management, and security software.

Martin Forisch is a Systems Engineer with IBM in Vienna, Austria. He is currently working in Service Delivery Software for the Intel software platform. He has worked at IBM for three years. Prior to this, he contracted to IBM for four years working with the IBM Austria OS/2 Enduser support Bulletin Board System as a SysOp. His areas of expertise include networking, OS/2 LAN, Warp Server, and Micosoft Windows NT.

Hans Joachim Liesert is a Systems Programmer with GAD Gesellschaft fuer automatische Datenverarbeitung eG in Muenster, Germany. He has seven years of experience in OS/2 and LAN Server. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany. His areas of expertise include heterogeneous networking, CID, and programming.

Matt Wood is an Advisory I/T Systems Engineer working in a pre-sales technical support role for the IBM EMEA Network Computing Software and e-business Centre of Competence, Hursley Park, UK. Prior to this, he worked in Personal Software Services. He has worked at IBM for five years. His areas of specialization include OS/2, OS/2 LAN & Warp Server, WorkSpace on-Demand, Netfinity, and software distribution including NVDM/2, CID, and Software Distribution for OS/2. He holds an honors Business degree.

A big Thank You to Alain Rykaert, IBM Belgium, also a member of the redbook project team. As an OS/2 LAN Server and CID Integrator, he set up the CID servers that helped the authors test migration scenarios over and over again. His knowledge of REXX programming was also very useful.


Figure 1: Authors of this redbook

The authors shown above, (left to right) Jean-Pierre Cabani\x8e, Frank Ermisch, Martin Forisch, Hans Joachim Liesert, Alain Rykaert, Matt Wood, and Oscar Cepeda, wish to thank the following people for their valuable contributions to this project:

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