Anne Thomas Manes, a leading authority on Web services technology, is a research director with the Burton Group, where she leads research on application platform strategies. In 2002, she was named by NetworkWorld as one of the 50 most powerful networking professionals and was also listed among the 2001 Power 100 IT Leaders by Enterprise Systems Journal. She served as chief technology officer at Systinet, the Web services infrastructure company, and as director of market innovation at Sun Microsystems. She is currently a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal and a participant in Web services standards development efforts at JCP, W3C, OASIS, WS-I and UDDI.
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