The Open Group conference set for March
The southern African leg of The Open Group’s Conference takes place on 17 March 2015 – as the world’s foremost experts on enterprise architecture (EA) converge at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa. Over the past few years, The Open Group has made huge...
RS Components stocks new Raspberry Pi model
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers, is now stocking the new and improved Raspberry Pi Model A+, which combines enhanced value and ease of use with smaller size and lower power consumption for applications...
Microsoft .NET goes open source
Microsoft has reinforced its commitment to cross-platform developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET stack and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms.
Obsidian, OSSSA drive open source
Open source software specialist Obsidian Systems has been listed as an official supporter of the Open Source Software for South Africa (OSSSA) organisation and has joined a growing network of supporters and collaborators championing the value of OS in trade, industry...
Governments must leverage Open Source
Transformation is at the heart of government agenda, with service delivery improvement key among transformation initiatives. Embracing technology as an enabler of service delivery across the different spheres of government can assist with providing more effect and...
Ericsson opens up Bowser, OpenWebRTC
Ericsson Research it is releasing its web browser Bowser and the underlying framework OpenWebRTC as free and open source. The intention is to further quicken the pace of innovation in the WebRTC community by providing developers with more choice and flexibility....
Obsidian, Red Hat lay down enterprise security gauntlet
Open source industry partners Obsidian and Red Hat will host a two-day event in October to discuss the feasibility of open source technology as an integrated IT solution for enterprises and the relevant decisions left up to CIOs. The agenda will include in-depth...
Obsidian, GuruHut offer Atlassian products
Open Source software solutions provider Obsidian Systems has joined forces with GuruHut to deliver complete local Atlassian solutions. “With more pressure on IT teams to deliver rapid innovation for your business, we will enable many more Atlassian users in South...
Red Hat announces Storage Server release
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the newest major release of Red Hat Storage Server, an industry leading open software-defined storage solution for scale-out file storage. The advanced capabilities in...
Obsidian Systems, GuruHut partner up
Obsidian Systems, an established South African supplier of Open Source software solutions, and GuruHut, a collective of Java programmers, have announced a partnership that will result in an integrated solution for the local Red Hat JBoss middleware market, as well as...
Obsidian Systems, GuruHut partner
Obsidian Systems, an established South African supplier of Open Source software solutions, and GuruHut, a collective of Java programmers, have announced a partnership that will result in an integrated solution for the local Red Hat JBoss middleware market, as well as...
The emergence of open source software
One of the biggest and most important trends coming to the fore in the technology industry is the rise of open source software (OSS). Although the use of OSS is relatively new to South African enterprises, it is being adopted more and more by local businesses who are...