Government is experiencing major barriers in the adoption of ICT for various departments, says ForgeAhead.
Cape Town is investigating five areas where open source could be used as part of its overall ICT strategy, says its CIO.
LinuxChix Africa plans to promote the use of free and open source software among women during a Software Freedom Day celebration.
A Women`s Mutingati in Cape Town highlighted how ICT can advance women`s causes and pledged to support open source software.
In a reversal of the usual pattern, local software producers Jam Warehouse have launched their BrandDirector product in the South African market
In this weeks open source World Wide Wrap: CRM goes open with SugarCRM; SUN plans for open DRM; and five Linux centres for Latin America
In today`s technology roundup: Google soon to be watching you, AMD ships Turion chips, Oracle challenges MS Sharepoint, and open source integration project launched.
Open source is becoming a practical alternative for many local organisations, and its adoption has risen sharply in 2005, says Inus Gouws, senior information management consultant at Computer Associates Africa.
Mark Shuttleworth`s Canonical has called on companies to take part in Software Freedom Day on 10 September.
In today`s technology roundup: US school issues laptops instead of textbooks, podcasting now available on cellphones, blogging can be done via MS Word, and Eclipse upgrades C, C++ development tools.
South Africa could be at the front of the "unstoppable" global open source movement, says Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.
In this week`s open source WorldWideWrap: Scottish police replace open source systems with MS, open source CRM application developed for Oracle 9i, and Red Hat and HP create all-in-one software bundle.