Ingo Rammer is co-founder of thinktecture, a company providing in-depth technical consulting and training services for software architects and developers. Ingo is a world-renowned expert for design and development of distributed applications, and he provides architecture, design, and architecture review services for teams of all sizes. He focuses mainly on improving performance, scalability and reliability of critical .NET applications. Apart from his consulting services, he is a regular speaker at developer conferences around the world, has authored the award-winning best-selling "Advanced .NET Remoting" books for Apress, and writes a regular column on software design and architecture which is published in the United States, Germany and Italy. Ingo is the Microsoft Regional Director for Austria, and was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP status of Solution Architect. You can read more about him at http://www.thinktecture.com/staff/ingo and reach him at ingo.rammer@thinktecture.com. Distributed .NET Applications - Today and Tomorrow Optimising Distributed Application Scalability, Performance and Availability Indigo - Building Services with the Community Technology Preview Transactions in .NET 2.0 Tuning, Profiling and Troubleshooting Distributed Applications