Michael MacIsaac works as a systems programmer at a large HR company in the tri-state area. Before that Mike worked at IBM for many years specializing in Linux under z/VM on the mainframe,  At a recent presentation in Manhattan, Mike said we are here in the best city on earth (NYC), discussing the best computer hardware on earth (mainframe) which runs the best hypervisor on earth (z/VM) which hosts the best operating system on earth (GNU/Linux) which is based on the best software development model on earth (freeware) and a computer language that is almost certainly not the best on earth (bash).