User:Pjessen

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About me

Winter on Bergstrasse

My name is Per Jessen, I'm Danish and I live outside Zürich in Switzerland with my family. I own and run my own company, [Spamchek], an anti-spam filtering service.

• if you are interested in my professional life prior to Spamchek, feel free to browse my [LinkedIn profile].
• if you are interested in my private life, [Bjarne Wildau] wrote two articles about me and my family . In Danish: [artiklerne i Århus Onsdag].

Otherwise, there probably isn't much to say about me that you won't find by a bit of googling - since the early 1990s, I've been active on numerous mailing lists, generally making a nuisance of myself, but occasionally also helping people with something or other.

Contact info

• email: [per@opensuse.org]

SUSE and me

It's been a long time since I - more or less by accident - picked up a copy of SuSE Linux 4.4.1 in the [Hugendubel bookstore] on Marienplatz in München. I think it must have been around 1996, but I'm not sure. Since then I believe I've bought versions 5.3, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, and 9.3. I still have the CDs, and the boxes or manuals from some of those. Starting with 10.0, I've been fairly active in the alpha- and beta-test programme, and as a thank you for my efforts, Novell has been kind enough to send me a copy of 10.0 etc.

Today I use only openSUSE and SUSE Linux. In fact, in my company we use only Linux and open source software, perhaps with one or two exceptions (our double entry book-keeping software is a Windows product). I've had occasional flings with Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake and Ubuntu, but never for very long and I've always returned to SUSE.

Linux and me

• Linux-390

It's probably worth mentioning my interest in Linux-390. I've spent a large part of my professional life writing software for IBM hardware, so when I started working for [BEA Systems] in 2001, it wasn't long before I began to look at running Weblogic on Linux-390. This quickly led to a couple of minor contributions to the [Hercules System/390 emulator], and somehow I also got involved in an initial effort of getting [SAPDB] (now [MAXDB]) to build and run on Linux-390.

open source and me

[to be continued]