Chris Preimesberger is an editor and reporter for DesktopLinux.com and eWEEK.com, both of Ziff Davis Media. He is former Editorial Director of IT Manager's Journal, part of the Open Source Technology Group network of news and information sites. In 2000, he founded the Java and Open Source Zones at DevX.com, a leading portal for the information technology business. He has been a contributing writer for C/Net Networks' Builder.com and the wireless industry analyst for Evans Data Corp., of Santa Cruz, Calif. He has written for a number of print and online publications, including the Los Angeles Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, the Orlando Sentinel, PlanetIT, Handheld Computing, and Dotcom.com. In earlier editions, he was managing editor of Software Development magazine (CMP Media), an editor/columnist at the Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, Calif.), and editor-in-chief of the Cupertino (Calif.) Courier. He has been a sports correspondent for The Associated Press since 1983 and has served as press box announcer or statistician for Stanford University football since that same year.
Chris also is a musician. He has sung and acted in such community musical productions as "Godspell," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "The Music Man," and "Smoke on the Mountain." His favorite musical role was as a School Board member (barbershop quartet) in "The Music Man"; he's a baritone. He counts among his mentors the great Adela Rogers St. Johns and the incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, Jim Murray--both of whom are now playing at the next level.
He and his wife, Becky, reside in Redwood City, Calif., and have four children: Ryan, Courtney, Megan and Andrew.