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Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy, Kavitha Varadarajan

Author Bio:

Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy works as a Software Engineer for IBM Global Services Group. He joined IBM in 2000 and his expertise in programming reaches from scripting languages to object- and procedure-oriented languages on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, WebSphere, Lotus, and so on). Muthuswamy has developed solutions ranging from system programming on Linux and Windows to Web solutions for J2EE. His primary focus is on integration and porting and he holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. You can contact him at smuthusw@in.ibm.com.

Kavitha Varadarajan has worked as a software Engineer in the IBM India Software Lab from December 2000. Her work experience involves development and support of host-access client products such as PCOMM and networking software such as the communication server. Varadarajan has a hands-on experience with a migration project that involves porting object-oriented IPC Windows applications to Linux. She holds a B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanmugha College of Engineering, Tanjore, India. She can be contacted at vkavitha@in.ibm.com.

Tutorials written by Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy, Kavitha Varadarajan:

Port Windows IPC Apps to Linux, Part 1: Processes and Threads
The wave of migration to open source in business has the potential to cause a tremendous porting traffic jam as developers move the pervasive Windows® applications to the Linux platform™. In this three-part series, get a mapping guide, complete with examples, to ease your transition from Windows to Linux. Part 1 introduces processes and threads.
Thursday, 16th June 2005