Server Architectures

Acknowledgements

Creating a book and preparing it for publication is, for its author, a rather private effort but one which is fed and nourished through many discussions and exchanges of opinion. I must therefore start by thanking my colleagues at Bull along with the industry representatives and researchers with all of whom I have had many fruitful exchanges and discussions.

But I must go further and single out some colleagues for special thanks: Jean Papadopoulo, Jean-Jacques Pairault, Michel Pontacq and Pierre Roux of Bull for their comments and suggestions for the preliminary version; Lazzaro Pejsachowicz for his help with the section on security; my collegaues at CNAM—and in particular Jean-Pierre Meinadier, a full professor and Systems Integration ...