Anne Thomas
Senior Consultant
The Patricia Seybold Group

Anne Thomas is a Senior Consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group, specializing in distributed computing technologies. She is also editor-in-chief of the Distributed Computing Monitor, a monthly newsletter.

Ms. Thomas has over 15 years of experience working in distributed computing technology. Before joining PSGroup, Ms. Thomas was the Product Architect and Technical Evangelist for Open Environment Corporation (now the Enterprise Division of Borland International). Open Environment was a pioneer in the three-tier client/server market, developing middleware and rapid application development tools for DCE. Ms. Thomas developed much of her expertise working as a product manager in the Distributed Computing Software group at Digital Equipment Corporation. She produced products related to DCE, CORBA, and messaging. She has also worked for IBM Corporation and Cullinet Software, Inc.

Her broad technical background includes extensive experience with database management, transaction processing, application development, analysis and design, workflow, and legacy integration across a variety of platforms from PC to mainframe.

Ms. Thomas is author to a number of white papers and articles which have been featured in a variety of trade papers, newsletters, magazines, and web columns. She has a quarterly column in "Distributed Object Computing" magazine. She is a frequent keynote or featured speaker at trade shows, industry seminars, and universities.