About the Author
John S. Howard is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun's Reference Architecture Engineering group. He has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and systems administration on a diversity of platforms. John is currently designing data center architectures as well as products and tools to deploy and manage integrated software stacks.
John is the author of numerous technical papers and co-author of the books JumpStart Technology: Effective Use in the Solaris™ Operating Environment and Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris™ Operating Environment.
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