Kuassi Mensah is director of product management for Oracle database access frameworks (Net Services, DRCP, TAF), database programming APIs (Java, C/C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl), and In-Database Mapreduce. Kuassi holds an MS in computer sciences from the Programming Institute of University of Paris VI. He has published several articles and a book at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555583296. He is a frequent speaker at Oracle and IT events and maintains a blog at http://db360.blogspot.com, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter (http://twitter.com/kmensah) pages.