| I remember one fateful afternoon when I asked my colleague Michael Iversen whether he’d be interested in writing a book with me. When he had finished laughing, his initial response was that he actually liked the idea. Neither of us had ever written a book before, but for us the idea seemed thrilling.
Agreeing on the subject was easy. Naturally, we chose to write about a topic for which we found ourselves professionally fit to move forward in the writing process. We are both IT Specialists working for IBM Global Services, and because we had both been working together on a variety of Remote Installation Services installations at different types of organizations, we found ourselves highly qualified to share our knowledge about this deployment technology with other people.
When writing a book, we think it is essential to keep the purpose for doing so clear at all times. For us, the purpose has been to try to do something different, to share our knowledge with the IT community, and to learn how to express this knowledge in writing. Now that this book is finished, we have learned a tremendous amount about writing. We have exerted a lot of effort and spent a lot of time, and there have been times when our motivation seemed forgotten. At the end of the day, it has been hard work, but it has certainly been worth the effort. We hope you will enjoy reading this book as much as we have enjoyed writing it. |
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