With an amazing career to date --full of great accomplishments-- this award is well deserved!

Congrats Stephen!

Congratulation to you Stephen; your dedication and contribution to the industry has resulted in this award being given to you. Well done and keep on trucken!!

Congratulations and well deserved! Quite an achievement.

I caught your talk at Comdex in Vegas on web services. You gave us a great roadmap which we implemented. I meant to thank you at the time. So, here's another chance to do this. Thank you Stephen.

John thank you for you kind words and to those in this forum for your thoughtful comments.

Moreover, thank you to everyone for the countless e-mails, IMs, phone calls regarding the award. It’s all very much appreciated and quite humbling.

However, it’s also about teamwork and collaboration, and I could not have done it without the support of so many so a special thank you to all who I have/will work with past, present, and future.

Best regards,
Stephen

A fine achievement for a long career. Well deserved.

really the best professor i ever had. many took computing because of his reputation. there are so many stories, stephenisms. one told me about her class wanting assembler so he goes out, writes book on it in two weeks and then gives extra classes so they would have assembler. he would create all this material and give it to his students. even tell us to put our names on it if it would help them in their careers. i came across one of these books, this time on networking being used by a big company for all their clients. yup his name "not" on it but it's his material. it's good to see stephen get this recognition. so well deserved!

Congratulations Stephen! I have been following your career for quite some time. Well deserved!

Well done Steve and well deserved! We used your enterprise design templates published by Novell on their site about 15 years ago. They saved us more than a million by our estimates and you provided them for free. Just amazing you would do this! So its good to see you getting the recognition you deserve.

Great job and great career!

I appreciate all the fine comments and the support. Thank you!

Just a heads-up that I'll be interviewing the winners in other categories so stay tuned. They represent such a fine group of professionals who have so many valuable insights to share. So let's continue to share, collaborate, and learn from each other. I'm certaintly having a lot of fun here and I know my co-hosts are enjoying this too!

One last note. The continuing e-mails are quite humbling. Again thank you and I wish you all the best and much success.

Best regards,
Stephen Ibaraki

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I usually respond to each note. Sorry for the delay. Derek, I appreciate your comments and the e-mail exchanges. I wish you a fine year in the far east, and your work on new innovations and your current product development.

Cheers,
Stephen Ibaraki

Anthony,

Thank you for taking the time to write. I will keep on "trucken" :-)

Cheers,
Stephen Ibaraki

Nancy,

When I was invited to speak at the last Comdex in Vegas, it represented a unique time in IT. It was the end of the Comdex magic since it hasn't reappeared since however it was also the beginning of the Web Services boom which in many ways is the catalyst for SaaS, Web 2.0, Microsoft innovations. I'm glad the talk was of use. I wrote a paper which appeared with Xephon the following year and later with the NPA on the same topic and gave related presentations to many companies who requested it afterwards. I knew it would build out further. Don't you just love this business--the change makes it fun!

Cheers,
Stephen Ibaraki

Thomas, I appreciate the kind words.

Cheers,
Stephen Ibaraki