Linus Torvalds released Linux on 5 October 1991, and by 1998 IBM was experimenting with it. In 2000 it was properly available on mainframes – along with the specialty processor IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux). The rest, as they say, is history.

As you probably noticed, Macs are definitely outside my expertise (and interest). However, I suspect some of you are using (or know someone who is using) a Mac, so I thought it was worth posting this. Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and ...

A MODEL approach to a problem on Tom Kyte's ASKTOM

The estimating methodology has as its objectives: •    to ensure that estimates are prepared based upon the production of specific, unambiguous and quantitative deliverables •    to ensure that several estimators...