Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jonathan Gennick, Jill Balzano, and the Apress staff; it takes a quality team to produce a quality book. Also thanks to the many people I’ve learned from over the years, the readers providing feedback, as well as Dave Jennings, Bob Suehrstedt, Scott Schulze, Venkatesh Ranganathan, Valerie Eipper, Mike Tanaka, Simon Ip, Nitin Mittal, Mohan Shanmugavelu, Ric Ambridge, Kamal Chamakura, Dallas Powell, Krishna (KP) Tallapaneni, Laurie Bourgeois, Todd Sherman, Radha Ponnapalli, Mohan Koneru, Kevin O’Grady, Peter Schow, Sujit Pattnaik, Roger Murphy, Barb Sannwald, Pete Mullineaux, Janet Bacon, Shawn Heisdorffer. Mehran Sowdaey, Patrick David, Carson Vowles, Aaron Isom, Tim Gorman, Tom Kyte, Max Rose, Doug Drake, Jim Johnson, Marilyn Wenzel, Mert Lovell, Richard Condie, Ralph Christian, Walter Cox, Harley Iverson, William Olsen, Dr. Braunberger, and Jim Stark.

—Darl Kuhn

I thank my wonderful wife, Melissa, who always supported my career aspirations, even when starting a new consulting company and authoring books at the same time. I also want to thank my three precious sons, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Noah, for always making me smile. Many thanks to the Apress staff for coordinating the book to completion.

—Charles Kim