OpenVOICE claims it is the first South African open source vendor to get a switching system licence.
A training programme is under way to impart open source skills to 270 SME representatives.
The awarding of SA's largest open source tender has been delayed by two weeks.
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The eThekwini municipality has based its intranet and Internet portal at www.durban.gov.za entirely on open source tools.
Novell has reaffirmed its roadmap for support of the OpenDocument file format in current and future Novell products.
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eThekwini municipality has seen benefits in using open source software (OSS), it says.
Novell has debuted as the sole Linux distributor in a ranking of technology suppliers for the retail sector.
SA's largest open source software tender should be awarded later this month.
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (Fossfa) secretariat will move from Kenya to SA.