Death Summary: Roland Piquepaille died unexpectedly on January 6, 2009 in Paris, France.

He had a digestive virus, which lead to a high fever and overall complications. According to his wife, doctors are still trying to figure out what exactly killed him.

There will be a ceremony service on Monday January 12, 2009 at Père Lachaise in Paris, France.

Who was Roland Piquepaille : Piquepaille was the Emerging Technologies blogger with ZDNet.

Below is a quote from Larry Dignan on the Emerging Tech blog…

"Roland was one of our most passionate bloggers and his ability to explain complex science well was something to behold. Roland spent most of his career in software, mainly for high performance computing and visualization companies, working for example for Cray Research and Silicon Graphics. He left the corporate world in 2001 after 33 years and jumped into blogging." Roland was also an "infamous" Slashdot poster… he even garnered his own "ohnoitsroland" meta tag.

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