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            <firstname>Wolfgang M.</firstname>
            <surname>Meier</surname>
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        <title>Acknowledgements</title>
        
        <para>We would like to thank the following organizations and corporations for 
        supporting and sponsoring the development of eXist:</para>
        
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                    The new indexing engine featured in eXist, for Versions 1.1 and all
                    subsequent releases, is made possible through the agency of the
                    <a href="http://tapor.uvic.ca/home.php">University of Victoria</a>
                    node of the Canadian TAPoR consortium, who have
                    made it available for general use.
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                    TAPoR
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                <td class="description"><a href="http://www.trapezenetworks.com">Trapeze Networks</a>, 
                    headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., has continuously sponsored improvements 
                    and new features since 2004 and helped to advance development by testing and deploying 
                    eXist in a production environment.</td>
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                    <a href="http://www.trapezenetworks.com">
                        <img border="0" src="resources/trapeze.gif"/>
                    </a>
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                <td class="description">Major parts of the XQuery implementation were motivated and 
                    sponsored by the project: <em>"Exemplarische Internet-Edition der Werke des 
                    jungen Goethe und Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz'"</em>, funded by the
                    <a href="http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/">Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung</a>. Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karl Eibl 
                    (Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität München), 
                    Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis (Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 
                    TU Darmstadt).
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                    <a href="http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de">
                        <img border="0" src="resources/thyssen.png"/>
                    </a>
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                <td class="description">The eXist Wiki, the demo server and other vital parts of our project
                    infrastructure are kindly hosted by <a href="http://www.csw.co.uk/">CSW Group Ltd.</a>
                    in the UK.</td>
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                    <a href="http://www.csw.co.uk/">
                        <img border="0" src="resources/cswgroup.gif"/>
                    </a>
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                <td class="description">The <a href="http://www.devonline.gov.uk">Devon Portal Project</a> sponsored development of various 
                bug fixes and donated the mail, context and sql extension modules. The Devon Portal is a partnership of Local Authorities in Devon, UK.</td>
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                    <a href="http://www.devonline.gov.uk/">
                        <img border="0" src="resources/devonline.png"/>
                    </a>
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