Thanks for the welcome Mark. Allow me to provide some more info about myself:
I live in Brisbane, Australia (hence the strange times I am online), am married and have a 2.5 year old daughter. If you are in Australia and want to catchup, feel free to drop me a line. I occasionally travel to Sydney and Melbourne (Sydney is my home town). I am very keen to visit sites (the information gathered from "real world" visits is fantastic). I am excited to be working with Drools, and JBoss, there are very exciting times ahead, things have only just started. I am pleased to see heaps of people helping out others on this mailing list, its the sign of a healthy project ! so keep it up. I am very interested in getting more and more people to contribute, of late there have been many more people chipping in which is great, I would love to encourage that. It is amazing to see what people do with drools, and "real world" feedback and contributions are absolultely invaluable. Hopefully we can drive the adoption or rule technology to make smarter and smarter software, which can adapt to changes rapidly. I am sure everyone is getting a little weary of endless ways to build the same "CRUD" database application ! Its nearly 2006 and time to make smarter apps, focusing on complex rules and complex and valuable apps - but I digress. (if any of you are from commercial rule management vendors, we would love to hear from you, history shows us that Open Source and commercial products can live together in the market !). See you around ! Michael Here is a picture of me, taking a picture of myself, in scrubs: http://www.users.on.net/~michaelneale/michael.jpg On 12/7/05, Mark Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some great news. Michael Neale, responsible for the Excel > integration, has joined JBoss full time to work on Drools. His initial > areas of focus will be on Rule Management and Repository as well as to > continue with better tool integration with products like Excel. This is > great news for Drools and its community and ensures we will have an even > stronger product in the future. > > Mark Proctor > Drools Project Lead >
