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Credits

ProcessViewBrowser has come into my mind when I had been working at SMS Demag AG. There we had the need for a more flexible tool for process visualization than is provided by commercial tools available. First of all it should be portable. We used computers with Linux/Unix, OpenVMS and Windows. It should be possible to extend the software when needed. It's costs should be moderate. We also wanted the source of the software.

I explained my ideas to the staff. The idea was to have something like a internet browser. But instead of displaying almost static HTML code it should display dynamic changing Qt widgets. Since the company didn't want to start such a project I decided to start an OpenSource project.

But nevertheless I have to credit the guys at SMS Demag AG (Gregor Schneider, Dr.-Ing. Hubertus Schauerte, Klaus Fehr, Marek Zuchowski, Frank Adjogble, Peter Bonekemper, Renate Hermsen, Guido Buschhoff) for supporting me with money, software licenses and a lot of ideas and early testing of the software.

Of course most credit goes to my family. My wife Petra and my son Sebastian. Because I have done most of the work in spare time. Thanks to Petra that I could be sitting on my Linux box for such a long time. Sebastian has done pvbrowser programming in PHP. He made me insert many new features in pvbrowser.

Thanks also to my partners Angel Maza, Prof. Mehner and the guys from http://www.linuxintrol.org . They have done a lot of testing, supplying code, discussions and new ideas.

Of course all users of pvbrowser reported bugs or introduced wishes for features I never thought of.

What should not be forgotten, I have to thank the OpenSource community. pvbrowser uses a lot of other projects. The whole solution would not have been possible without.


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Rainer Lehrig 2004-02-17