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...

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...

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...