Tony is an engagement manager for IBM's Customer Innovation Team with the responsibility of understanding the impact of emerging software technologies in client environments, identifying the parameters that drive acceptance of these technologies, and promoting those parameters across a broad IBM community. Tony has been involved with software development for commercial applications, host systems and databases for about 20 years and then moved into Systems Management in marketing and sales roles. In his current position he focuses on Web 2.0 technologies, Open Source n specifically Ajax and Enterprise Mashups.