About the Authors
DAVID DEETHS has worked in the Enterprise Engineering group at Sun for four years. His work has focused primarily on clusters and high-availability systems. He is coauthor of the Sun BluePrint[tm] Sun Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster 2.2 and has published numerous online articles on a variety of topics. David holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego.
JOHN S. HOWARD is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in the Enterprise Engineering group. He has over 19 years experience in software engineering and systems administration on a diverse array of platforms. John is currently working on projects for enhancing system and serviceability.