Gerald Pfeifer
	Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. [Khalil Gibran]

In my day job, I am the Director of Product Management at Novell's Open Platform Solutions Business Unit, responsible for openSUSE, the SUSE Linux Enterprise product family (Server, High Availability, Desktop, Realtime, Point of Service, ...), OpenOffice, and Appliances (including SUSE Studio).

During my first three years at Novell I served as project lead for Enterprise Linux, coordinating dozens of teams in various engineering departments all over the world and working with product management/marketing as well as partners (hardware, software, and component vendors). In addition I was responsible for specific aspects of the SUSE Linux platform such as the Itanium version, RAS and scalability, created the SDK product, and served as release manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Most of 2003, I was on a research contract at C.I.E.S./University of Calabria, working on the DLV project. Before that, I spent several years in academia, mostly as assistant professor at the Database and Artificial Intelligence Group at Vienna University of Technology. Apart from research in databases and artificial intelligence (deductive databases, non-monotonic reasoning, knowledge representation & reasoning) and teaching, I supervised student projects and theses and managed the sysadmin team.

Some of my colleagues would call me a hacker (in the original, benign meaning of this word) and indeed I spend a fair amount of my spare time on GCC, where I maintain the web pages and documentation and serve on the Steering Committee, and FreeBSD, where I am a ports committer. As time permits I also enjoy scuba diving as a certified rescue diver and seeing places.

I studied computer science (Informatik) at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and also took various courses at Universität Wien. In the fall of 1996 I completed my computer science studies with a Masters (Dipl.-Ing.); in 2000 I then obtained my doctorate (Dr.techn.).

Further Projects and Affiliations

• In addition to GCC, I have been contributing to Wine, grepmail, checkbot, rblcheck, umtsmon, and various other free software packages and maintain several FreeBSD ports such as the one for bibtex2html.
• Austrian Volunteer Votetaker for the Usenet hierarchy at.* and moderator of the Newsgroup at.usenet.cancel-reports.
• Member of ÖGAI and DAN.
• Member of the editorial board of Linux Technical Review