Bob Lojek—. For taking Model Driven Architecture to the next level and for inventing the first plausible attempt at a software Babel Fish.

Chris Winter—. A truly inspiring IBM Fellow who believes more in community and the capability of people than anyone else we’ve met in the industry. Chris was the key driver and technical sponsor behind this work.

Christian Hance—. Christian is a project executive in IBM who had enough faith in his architects to enable them to create the first iteration of Brownfield. We are hugely grateful that he also agreed to review this book.

Cúram Software—. For introducing us to the practicalities of Model Driven Architecture in the first place.

Fred Brooks—. Who calls his seminal work, The Mythical Man Month, a bible of software engineering because everyone has heard of it, some have read it, but very few follow it. We hope you do all three and hope this is nearer to a testament than to some apocrypha. We’d like to thank Fred for the quote, “Brownfield is much, much harder than Greenfield, whether software or house remodeling.”

Ian Hughes—. Probably better known globally as “ePredator potato,” Ian introduced us to Second Life and, hopefully, put one more nail into the coffin of PowerPoint-based architectures (see Chapter 4).

Ian Scott—. Executive IT architects really shouldn’t code, but Ian took the brave step of inheriting the patented approach and code that produced the pictures in Chapter 4. The capabilities of this code are now world-leading, thanks to Ian.

IBM—. This book proposes a number of radical ideas; that IBM would endorse the publication of such a book shows Gerstner’s Dancing Elephant vision lives on.

Mandy Chessell—. For crystallizing the architecture in everyone’s heads, patenting it, and unwittingly inventing the acronym VITA. Oh, and the slides—very nice slides.

John Tait—. John made us think about the timeline of this book. Why did our gut-feel place the origins of the problem 35 years ago? When we thought about it, we already knew the answer, but we had completely missed the question.

Katherine Bull—. We always had enthusiasm, impetus, and drive for the ideas in this book, but Katherine added the same to the publishing process.

Kevin Ferguson—. Kevin saved us goodness knows how many days, thanks to his thorough edit and review of our text. No one will suspect we come from Canada.

Phil Tetlow—. Phil is the most enthusiastic proponent of all things semantic and inherently complex (including Web Science) and has supported this effort throughout.

Our clients—. Last but not least. We can’t possibly name you, as the lawyers would undoubtedly get excited, but, without a doubt, the thing that keeps us motivated and innovative is trying to solve the problems of our clients, for their customers. We hope Brownfield will assist in solving some of those intransigent problems you face.