Mark Rais serves as our senior editor, while also providing IT guidance to international organizations and governments.

Mark Rais is currently a technology consultant providing IT support and solutions for both government and industry in the areas of: web portals, content management systems, enterprise security, and business infrastructure such as Android phones, tablets, cloud services.

He formerly served as a technology leader at Aol Inc. and Netscape, working on large scale websites including the AOL Shopping Web Portal (USD $1 Billion in transactions in its initial year).

Rais also managed the development and use of the CART content publishing tool, responsible for delivering exclusive content for major brands including Aol, AIM, Netscape, and Compuserve front pages, with over 2 million daily views.

Mark Rais was the technical manager for the first AOL/CBS Big Brother TV reality show website, which at the time broke world-wide records for maximum internet connectivity (over 500,000 hits per second).

Rais currently provides leadership, design and development on a variety of projects including those on Linux enterprise servers, a variety of CMS business deployments, as well as direct support for Microsoft and Linux solutions for smart phones, tablets, workstations and servers.

His passion is to see more government and business organizations gain benefits from IT, and Mark states, "Open Source technology solutions are a fundamental tool for reducing costs and increasing services across environments."

Mark Rais continues to support the Linux and OpenSource community, as a contributing columnist for Linux+DVD magazine and senior editor of Reallylinux.com. Rais authored or contributed to five books including the revised 2nd Edition Linux for the Rest of Us, as well as over one hundred industry articles.

A few of Mark Rais' more recent publications include:

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