Mert 3.0

I have upgraded myself. I am jumping to the open-source bandwagon, "finally".

In couple of months (Since last May), I have learned great deal of information about open-source world. Every year, couple of times, I was checking what was going on. I found out that, now it was mature enough and evolving much faster than any other trend.

It all started when I bought my iPhone. I should thank Apple for this product. I found out that it was running on Unix and I could install any program on it (by hacking the phone, but it works, I don't mean any harm). So I first met SSH, for uploading files. Then I've seen Lighttpd and Apache. After that I needed some interpreted language, which I've found Python (not PHP). With these technologies, I needed some server platform, Microsoft was doing fine, but it wasn't meant for these applications, so I've installed Fedora 9 on my laptop.

After a while I didn't need any Microsoft application. Everything was running fine on Linux. So I am running Fedora 9 as primary hardware now.

Mert 1.0 -> Commodore 64
Mert 1.5 -> PC + dBase
Mert 1.6 -> Microsoft + Pascal, C etc
Mert 2.0 -> Microsoft Windows
Mert 2.4 -> Windows + Web
Mert 2.6 -> .Net
Mert 2.7 -> .Net + Agile
Mert 3.0 -> Open Source (*-nix)
Mert 3.x -> Not decided ("Web" for sure, but Java or Python, may be PHP, who knows)