The cmpi-base provider package was originally written by Heidi Neumann 
<heidineu@de.ibm.com>.

Contributions:

support for class Linux_OperatingSytemStatisticalData and the association
Linux_OperatingSystemStatistics was done by Michael Schuele 
<schuelem@de.ibm.com> ... thx :)

bugfix for release determination if no /etc/*release* file is found has
been suggested by Ferenc Szalai <szferi@einstein.ki.iif.hu>