All our colleagues at MetaCase have contributed to pushing DSM forward, but we
would particularly like to thank Janne Luoma and Risto Pohjonen for their work,
discussions and support, as well as their major roles in some of the example cases in
Part III. Many, many customers and prospects have shaped and stretched our understanding
of DSM as it has been applied to ever new areas. Most are happier keeping
their competitive advantage to themselves, but we simply must mention Jyrki
Okkonen for his pioneering work with DSM at Nokia. We would also like to thank
our esteemed competitors, in particular, Microsoft??™s Alan Cameron Wills and Aali
Alikoski, for their genuine and unprecedented levels of cooperation.
For the book itself, we would ?¬?rst like to thank Stan Wake?¬?eld for suggesting we
write it, and for playing matchmaker between the publishers and us. RachelWitmer at
Wiley has earned our gratitude for her patience in the face of implausibly long
deadline overruns, as DSM took off as a hot topic at just the right and the wrong
time. Dave Thomas has fought our corner in North America for a long time, and we
are deeply honored to have him write our foreword. In addition to many of those
already mentioned, we would like to thank the following for their contribution to or
feedback on the book: Jeff Gray of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Angelo
Hulshout of ICT NoviQ, Juha Pa??
rssinen of VTT, Laurent Safa of Matsushita Electric
Works, and Jos Warmer of Ordina.
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