For the project of the new international portal, Qbr chooses stability, flexibility, and safety provided by Linux, but mostly it relies on the expertise of Antonio Calabrese, Linux System Manager for Qbr.it, who says: “The greatest and most renowned web projects use Linux, such as Wikipedia, Dmoz and Google.”

Antonio Calabrese, in addition to being highly competent in Linux systems, boasts a long career in the management of complex infrastructures and high traffic portals. After obtaining the Cisco CCNA certificate, he worked in the Unix and Linux servers management and mostly in web environment for eight years. He is currently the Linux/Unix advisor for prestigious companies such as Enel S.p.a.

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Qbr online community is about to reach 300.000 users.
The event will be celebrated with the airing of a humorous commercial, that can be watched when the portal opens in September 2007. The commercial headline is “The Charge of 300.000 users”, ironically, defining the extraordinary ever increasing crowd of the community, with a comic book style representation of its “tribe”.

Founded in December 2003 and managed by Nascar (Neapolitan Internet Company leader in projecting visual identities, online communication and web-marketing) since 2004, Qbr has become one of the main national communities and the most popular social network in central and southern Italy.

The 300.000 milestone follows, by a few months, the birth of a magazine, (a

July 25th, 2007- Qbr community, www.qbr.it with its 270.000 registered users, 80.000 daily accesses and 2.200.000 web-pages visited every day, is the largest reality in the central-southern Italy and among the most important in the nation.

Based on visual chat, the activities of Qbr social network features 3800 simultaneous users online. The community staff awards such loyalty with a range of services and features to grant a great deal of entertainment and virtual interaction.

Each user can access “My home”, a space where it is possible to upload photos, videos, keep a list of friends, read received messages and monitor personal popularity based on the number of visits to each profile.

Qbr is also a rich