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Mike Gilpin is a vice president, covering software infrastructure for enterprise application development, integration, and deployment. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends for Java and J2EE application platforms, Web services technologies, and platforms, including Microsoft .NET and other emerging application platforms. Mr. Gilpin focuses on industry-leading companies including IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and BEA Systems.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Gilpin is also research director of the Application Development & Infrastructure research team, which comprises a dozen analysts focused on development and integration tools, application platforms, and related subject areas in effective processes and management of application development and integration within IT.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Gilpin came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. In his 22 years of hands-on experience with IT, Mr. Gilpin spent 16 years as a senior manager in the software development field. Prior to joining Giga, he was vice president of strategic technology at Intersolv, a leading global vendor of application development tools. He also led the creation and launch of multiple advanced application development tools at two leading application development vendors, LBMS and Intersolv.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Gilpin has spoken at numerous industry conferences -- he was the chairman of GigaWorld 2003 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Paris. He is quoted frequently in industry publications such as Application Development Trends, CNET (News.com), Computerworld, eWEEK, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Internet Week, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The New York Times.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Gilpin earned a B.A. in physics from Rice University.

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