Chris Britton

Chris Britton is a long-time IT professional. For the last five years he has–rather to his surprise–found himself designing and implementing web applications for business startups. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant, mainly in IT architecture and application development. Before that, for many years he worked for Unisys where did a variety of jobs–system software design; architecture consultancy; fixing large, broken databases; program management; and even marketing. It was while at Unisys he wrote his first IT book IT Architecture and Middleware: Strategies for Builiding Large Integrated Systems.

Peter Bye

Chris Britton is an independent consultant, specializing in IT architecture. He has worked in IT for the last twenty-seven years doing a variety of jobs—programming, technical support, system software design, program management, technical consultancy, and even marketing. More recently he has been spending his time developing an IT modeling tool.

Peter Bye has had a long career in IT as a programmer, analyst, and project manager, focusing on telecommunications, transaction processing, and distributed systems. Currently a system architect for Unisys Corporation, his experience includes work in software development centers and field projects around the world. Peter is a contributor to international standards in systems management, the author of a number of papers on middleware and other IT topics, and a frequent speaker at conferences and other events.