Novell has released SUSE Gallery, a new online showcase for registered SUSE Studio users to publish their appliances and cloud-based applications. With SUSE Gallery, end users can browse published appliances for the solution to their particular commercial or personal need, and then download the appliance free of charge.

Johannesburg-based Open Source software-as-a-service company Synaq's excellent performance in the interim SA FastGrowth 100 index is a clear indication that Open Source and Software as a Service (SaaS) is rapidly moving to mainstream within the South African corporate environment.

Torque IT, a South African training solutions provider in the ICT arena has been awarded the 2009 Linux Training Partner of the Year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions (EMEA).

Red Hat has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers”.

For the past five years, Regent Insurance has consulted SYNAQ to ensure its core business systems’ databases are accessible at all times.

Small and medium enterprises can now tap the benefits of advanced network communications and collaboration technologies easily, affordably, reliably and securely following the launch of Synaq Business Suite (SBS).

With recent movements in the market towards completely open source and open standards-based storage environments, the days of expensive, difficult to manage and vendor locked-in infrastructure could be over, writes Louis Botha, CTO of Think iT Solutions.

To many businesses, open source softwaer has long been considered a viable alternative to the traditional approach of paying license and maintenance fees for proprietary software, wriets DeWet Bisschoff, technology consulting managing exective at Accenture.

Like many companies over the world, United National Breweries (UNB) took a strategic decision some time ago to lease its IT equipment, as well as all of the maintenance associated with keeping it running, instead of buying it outright.

Yossi Hasson, MD of Synaq debunks some fo the more popular Open Source myths and answers frequently asked questions.

Breadbin Interactive's Freedom Toaster is a convergence of third-world problems and first-world technologies. This unusual union has resulted in an elegant and simple free-standing unit, containing Tactile Technologies' ELO TouchSystems monitors.