Local blockchain initiatives are set to receive funding following government's support of the South African National Blockchain Alliance.
The development of standard practices and centralised location of 'fixes' will go a long way towards resolving open source security issues, says WhiteSource.
Muggie van Staden, MD of Obsidian Systems, weighs in on the four major deals in the open source software arena in the past year and predicts more ahead.
DFA leads the industry in an open access approach to reduce duplication and costs, says Thinus Mulder, CEO of DFA.
The highest voluntary payment to a bug bounty hunter this year was $15 000, says Open Bug Bounty.
The open source solutions integration and training company is offering up to 25% off its most popular courses.
The partnership will provide Hadoop training courses to local firms in the financial services, telecoms and manufacturing sectors.
The company provides the necessary skill set to manage Linux workloads on-premises or in a hosted environment.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory will use open source technology to store and retrieve the huge volumes of data from the MeerKAT radio telescope.
South Africans based in Mauritius are developing a mobile money platform and blockchain protocol to create a new crypto-currency.
The company wants to address the 'entire spectrum of the multi-cloud journey'.