Starting in the early 1990s, Paul Brown has worked exclusively for
DBMS vendors with names starting with the letter 'I': Ingres,
Illustra, Informix and now IBM. He also spent three years working with
Postgres at UC Berkeley. He has written two books on Object-Relational
DBMS topics, and has contributed several research papers and book
chapters to the literature.  At Informix he was a member of the
'Architecture Review Board'. At IBM he works for the Database Research
Group under Hamid Pirahesh. His research interests include systems
availability, and the integration of DBMS and 'middle-ware'
functionality.