Scott Cranton is director of product management at Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., an RIA technology provider. Scott has over 15 years experience in the software industry, serving as software developer, architect, consultant and product manager at Strategic Mapping, MapInfo and ObjectStore. In 1996, Scott founded OpenMap, a software component provider for spatially enabled business applications, and led its product strategy and development efforts. Scott participates in, and is a frequent speaker at, many industry forums. Most recently, Scott led the OSS through Java Initiative's Massive Scalability focus group.