Don Box, a leading educator, recognized authority on the Component Object Model (COM), co-author of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) specification, and coiner of the term "COM is Love," has joined Microsoft Corp. as an architect in the Microsoft® .NET Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Box joins a renowned developer organization that includes the talents of distinguished engineers Anders Hejlsberg, inventor of Turbo Pascal and C#; Brad Lovering, a key architect of the Visual Basic®, Visual J++ (TM) and Visual Studio® .NET development systems; and Stanley Lippman, one of the pioneers of the C++ computer programming language. Box will help develop Microsoft's XML Web services architecture.
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