Patrick Linskey has been working with O/R mapping for over six years. He is an active member of both the JDO 2.0 and EJB 3.0 expert groups, and is on the JAOO Conference Program Committee.

As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction of the company. Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementation of the WebLogic Server EJB solution.

He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and EJB Persistence in hundreds of talks throughout the world. Under Patrick's leadership, Kodo has become the market leading JDO implementation with over 350 customers throughout the world spanning all industries, and is now the basis for the WebLogic Server EJB persistence provider.