Today, among corporations, governments, and individuals alike, there is much optimism regarding Africa's future. One of the main reasons for this is the continent's enviably youthful population, whose median age is only twenty years old.
Africa's ...
The ever-increasing pace of technology change delivers lots of lovely new gadgets for consumers, but spare a thought for the poor third-party software developer. While Microsoft is already offering sneak previews of Windows 8 and Apple is rolling out...
Quite often one hears the argument that this or that technology may work wonders elsewhere, "just not in my company or industry". The problem, one hears, is that "we're too boring for Facebook", that "our customers aren't mobile and print their email...
By Muggie van Staden
One of the biggest misconceptions about open source software (OSS) in the enterprise is that it is software that can be rolled out without the involvement of a vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise software deployment, the...
Thanks Nic for inviting me to blog on Techleader -- appreciate it. I've been considering what a good enough first post would be (there are a couple of ideas that didn’t make it saved elsewhere), and when I was sent the log-in details to Techleader,...
This is the kind of business about which people dream and fantasise. Facebook was launched in February 2004. In November 2007 it was reported that Microsoft bought a 1,6% share of the company for $240-million. You can do the sums to check out how muc...
A somewhat radical new way of thinking about software projects and how to manage customers through them.
Introduction
I have been doing software-development work for my entire career. That, to my horror, is somewhere close to 12 years now, which ...
The inspiration for this post came from the fact that I'm busy outsourcing software-development work to Russia now, given that I can't find the skills locally.
I often wonder how (and when!) South Africa will become globally competitive in the int...
