ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wale Soyinka (Canada) is a systems/network engineering consultant with several years
experience in the field. He has written an extensive library of Linux administration train-
ing materials. In addition to being a co-author of the fourth edition of Linux Administration:
A Beginner’s Guide, he is the author of a projects lab manual—Microsoft Windows 2000 Man-
aging Network Environments, which is part of the Microsoft certification series published
by Prentice Hall. Wale participates in several open source discussions and projects. His
latest project is at caffe*nix (www.caffenix.com) where he usually hangs out. caffe*nix is
possibly the world’s first (or only existing) brick-and-mortar store committed and dedi-
cated to prompting and showcasing open source technologies and culture.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR
Steve Shah (San Jose, California) is the chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder
of Asyncast, where he leads the product strategy and engineering groups. Prior to start-
ing Asyncast, Steve was the founder and principal of RisingEdge Consulting where he
provided strategic marketing services for a number of Silicon Valley infrastructure com-
panies. To earn his chops, Steve grew to be a prominent player in network load balanc-
ing, application delivery controllers, and Secure Sockets Layer-virtual private network
(SSL-VPN) markets as the director of product management at NetScaler (acquired by
Citrix) and Array Networks. Before turning into a marketing droid who is eerily com-
fortable at a Unix command prompt, Steve was a senior software engineer and systems
administrator at numerous companies. Steve holds a bachelor of science (BS) in com-
puter science with a minor in creative writing and a master in science (MS) in computer
science from University of California Riverside.
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is director of technology at Motorola, Inc. and is responsible for
defining and developing the requirements for Motorola’s open source initiatives. Prior
to Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the carrier-grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives
at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), which included promoting the develop-
ment and adoption of Linux and open source software in the communications industry.
Prior to joining OSDL, Dr. Haddad was a senior researcher at the Research & Innova-
tion Department of Ericsson’s Corporate Unit of Research. He is a contributing editor
for Linux Journal and Enterprise Open Source magazines. Haddad received his BS and
MS degrees in computer science from the Lebanese American University, and his PhD
in computer science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. In 2000, he was
awarded by Concordia University both the J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fel-
lowship, and the Concordia University 25th Anniversary Fellowship, in recognition for
academic excellence. In 2007, he was the winner of the Big Idea Innovation Award in
Recognition of Leadership and Vision at Motorola, Inc.
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