This technology has been retired.

Michael Schenker is currently a graduate student from the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. He works as a supplemental for the DB2 Information Integration department at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. Mr. Schenker can be reached at mschenk@us.ibm.com.

Susan Malaika has been an IBM Academy of Technology member since 1995. She co-edited a book on the Web in 1996. Ms. Malaika has worked in DB2 since 1998; she specializes in XML and Web technologies, including grid computing. She can be reached at malaika@us.ibm.com.

Amit Somani is a manager in the DB2 Information Integration Development team. He leads the areas of Web Services and Application and Data Integration. Before this, Mr. Somani spent over six years at IBM Research and made significant contributions in the areas of data-driven e-commerce applications, log-based recovery technology for Lotus Notes, SMP-Query Parallelism for DB2 UDB, and TPC-C/TPC-D Benchmarking for IBM DB2/NT/PCServer. He holds several patents and is the recipient of three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. Mr. Somani holds a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, India, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University Of Wisconsin at Madison. He can be reached at somani@almaden.ibm.com.

For platform(s):

• AIX
• Windows NT
• Linux

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For topics:

• relational
• retrieval
• SQL