Back in March 1991, Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld said, "I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996." In 2010, while IBM doesn't break out its profits by individual server line, IBM's systems and technology group, reported 1st quarter revenue of $3.4 billion.

Open Source for America (OSFA) has announced a report card scoring the openness of federal agencies and departments! Today marks the six-month anniversary of the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive, a big step towards greater transparency, collaboration, and participation in government.

It was with great pleasure then that I was able to catch up with a couple of members from the Peppermint team and put to them some questions about Peppermint, their views on the future of the cloud and a variety of other subjects.

The gauntlet has been thrown down. I have been slapped in the face with a glove. Reader response to my previous six test comparison has been very strong. More tests were suggested.

The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 is now available.

Whats new in this release:

* Many translation updates.
* A lot of bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

A short guide on migrating from shared hosting to vps hosting.

If you are looking to create a GUI application that can be easily ported to all major operating systems, wxWidgets is a great choice. It has a graphical tool for designing the forms, has bindings for many languages, and is an established, robust library.