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<!-- $Id: acknowledge.xml 18527 2013-06-09 20:23:22Z dizzzz $ --><book><bookinfo><productname>eXist-db – Open Source Native XML Database</productname><title>Acknowledgements</title><date>August 2012</date><author><firstname>Wolfgang M.</firstname><surname>Meier</surname><affiliation><address format="linespecific"><email>wolfgang at exist-db.org</email></address></affiliation></author><author><firstname>Leif-Jöran</firstname><surname>Olsson</surname><affiliation><address format="linespecific"><email>ljo at exist-db.org</email></address></affiliation></author><style> table { margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; } td { margin-bottom: 2em;
            border-bottom: 1px dotted #C0C0C0; } td.description { padding-right: 3em; } p.ack {
            margin-top: 1em; } </style></bookinfo><chapter><title>Acknowledgements</title><section><title>Supporters</title><para>We would like to thank the following organizations and corporations for supporting
                and sponsoring the development of eXist-db:</para><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15"><tr><td class="description">The pluggable Security Manager, LDAP authentication and the Access Control List permissions, featured in eXist-db since August 2011, were made possible by sponsorship from the <a href="http://http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html" title="The Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows'">Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe'</a>, <a href="http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/index_e.html" title="Heidelberg University">Heidelberg University</a>.</td><td align="center"><img border="0" src="resources/heidelberg_kjc_logo.png"/></td></tr><tr><td class="description"> The new indexing engine featured in eXist-db, since version
                        1.1, was made possible through the agency of the
                            <a href="http://tapor.uvic.ca/home.php">University of Victoria</a> node
                        of the Canadian TAPoR consortium, who have made it available for general
                        use. </td><td align="center" style="font-size: 4em; font-family: Garamond, Helvetica, 'Arial Black', serif; color: #660000; font-weight: bold;"> TAPoR </td></tr><tr><td class="description"><a href="http://www.trapezenetworks.com">Trapeze
                            Networks</a>, headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., has continuously
                        sponsored improvements and new features since 2004 and helped to advance
                        development by testing and deploying eXist-db in a production environment.</td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.trapezenetworks.com"><img border="0" src="resources/trapeze.gif"/></a></td></tr><tr><td class="description">Major parts of the XQuery implementation were motivated
                        and sponsored by the project: <em>"Exemplarische Internet-Edition der Werke
                            des jungen Goethe und Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz'"</em>, funded by the
                            <a href="http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/">Fritz-Thyssen
                            Stiftung</a>. Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karl Eibl (Institut für Deutsche
                        Philologie, Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität München), Prof. Dr. Fotis
                        Jannidis (Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, TU Darmstadt). </td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de"><img border="0" src="resources/thyssen.png"/></a></td></tr><tr><td class="description">The eXist-db Wiki, the demo server and other vital parts of
                        our project infrastructure are kindly hosted by <a href="http://www.friprogramvarusyndikatet.se/">Fri
                            programvaru-syndikatet / exist-db.se</a> in Sweden.</td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.friprogramvarusyndikatet.se/"><img border="0" src="resources/fps-logo.png"/></a></td></tr><tr><td class="description">The <a href="http://www.devonline.gov.uk">Devon Portal
                            Project</a> sponsored development of various bug fixes and donated the
                        mail, context and sql extension modules. The Devon Portal is a partnership
                        of Local Authorities in Devon, UK.</td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.devonline.gov.uk/"><img border="0" src="resources/devonline.png"/></a></td></tr><tr><td class="description"> The versioning extensions, released with
                        eXist-db 1.4, were kindly sponsored by the <a href="http://www.telota.de/">Telota Initiative</a> of the <a href="http://www.bbaw.de">Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities</a>. </td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Akademie/"><img border="0" src="resources/BBAW_Logo.png"/></a></td></tr><tr><td class="description"> Travelling and development costs sponsored by <a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/">Språkbanken (The Swedish Language Bank)</a> of <a href="http://www.gu.se/">University of Gothenburg</a>. </td><td align="center"><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/"><img border="0" src="resources/sb_logo.png"/></a></td></tr></table></section><section><title>Tools We Use in Development</title><table><tr><td class="description">XML and non-XML resources of an eXist-db database can be
                        edited and processed with XSLT and XQuery seamlessly in <a href="http://www.oxygenxml.com">&lt;oXygen/&gt; XML Editor/Author</a>
                        both through an eXist-db connection and through WebDAV in an integrated
                        environment.</td><td align="center"><a href="http://www.oxygenxml.com"><img border="0" src="resources/oxygenxml.jpg"/></a></td></tr></table></section></chapter></book>