Don Box is a technical author and one of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services. He currently works as a software architect at Microsoft and is involved with Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and related technologies. Previously, he was a column editor and frequent contributor to Microsoft Systems Journal, which later became MSDN Magazine.
Don was a Component Object Model (COM) evangelist before he encountered XML. His message was that "COM is love" and that all languages can play together. In 1993, he co-founded developer training company DevelopMentor; its first training facility opened in the Los Angeles area in 1994.