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Manuel Alberto Ricart is a trainer and engineer for Paradigm Research, Inc. (PRI), where he develops instructional materials on several major programming object technologies. He is the author of the Apache Server Survival Guide, published by Sams.net. Alberto has provided Unix and PC system administration support since the mid-1980s. He founded a software company in 1992 that develops commercial software for the NEXTSTEP Unix environment.