Scott Stark, Ph.D. is the Chief Technology Officer of the JBoss Group, LLC. Scott holds a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. His expertise is in applying massively parallel computers to difficult chemical engineering problems. Marc Fleury, Ph.D. is the president of the JBoss Group, LLC, having started his career in sales at Sun Microsystems France. A graduate of the École Polytechnique, France's top engineering school, and an ex-lieutenant in the paratroopers, he has a masters degree in theoretical physics from the ENS ULM, and a Ph.D. in physics for work in x-ray lasers that he did as a visiting scientist at MIT. JBoss Group LLC is an elite service company dedicated to support, training, and consulting for the free JBoss platform. Based in Atlanta, GA, this LLC utilizes core JBoss programmers around the world. JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE application server implemented in 100% Pure Java. The JBoss/Server and complement of products are delivered under a public license. With 50,000+ downloads per month, JBoss is arguably the most downloaded J2EE-based server in the industry.