John Lamb is a Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM Global Business Services in Somers, New York. He is an IBM Senior Certified IT Architect, and he holds a B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ASME engineering societies. He has published more than 50 technical papers and articles and has coauthored four books, including Lotus Notes (R) and Domino (R) 5: Scalable Network Design (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and IBM WebSphere (R) and Lotus: Implementing Collaborative Solutions (Prentice-Hall, 2004).