Raymond is a platform-independent distributed host manager written in Perl. It automates information collection and maintenance, creates relationships, and provides hooks to implement those relationships any way you see fit.

a graduate of HVS, received his BA from Pomona College, his medical degree from McGill and a Masters and Doctorate in Epidemiology from Harvard

Founder of the " Open Source" movement, which defines itself as a non-politic version of the " Free Software" movement. Also author of numerous sociological articles which are references in the Free developer community (for example "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" or "The Magic Cauldron").