Robbert Van der Linden
Biography:
Bert Van der linden joined IBM in 2001 to work on the XML project in DB2 as one of the early architects. Bert came to IBM from a startup company, Propel, where he led the design and implementation of the distributed and fault-tolerant middleware which hosted a scalable e-commerce application. Before that Bert worked for many years at Tandem Computers on the NonStop SQL, a database that runs many critical applications in the financial industry.