Thomas Nichols has been developing commercial software since he caught the OO bug in 1986, and saw the advent of XML in 1998 as his escape from EDI. His interest throughout his career has been in practical implementation of rocket-science technology to solve real-world problems, he is now greatly enjoying putting his commercial experience into practice steering the technical implementation of DeltaXML, which he sees as a revolutionary technology. Thomas is a skilled Java and C++ programmer, working with cross-platform technologies and happiest in a "heterogeneous environment". XML is one of his very favourite beasts.