This week in Computing SA

NEWS

Multinational in 51% BEE deal
Theo Boshoff

Local ICT companies are starting to bring their BEE empowerment and ownership credentials into compliance with the draft ICT Charter, and multinationals are also starting to shape up before being (possibly) shipped out.

Mass certification
Sean Bacher

AfriBiz, provider of network-specific services such as mail servers, firewalls and Web servers, is once again in the process of hosting and managing a Linux certification programme in conjunction with the Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
LPI, formed in 1998, is a non-profit organisation based in Canada. It is recognised worldwide as an organisation advocating and assisting in the professional use of Linux and open source software. It consists of numerous contributing Linux members from all over the world.

Impi 2005 released
Samantha Perry

The latest version of the local Linux distribution, Impi, is now available for purchase from http://www.impilinux.org. This version is more heavily targeted at enterprise users than its predecessors, says Impi Linux technologist, Ross Addis.

Microsofts anti-virus plans
Nicolas Callegari

With Microsofts recent activities in the security market, the industry is waiting with considerable anticipation to see what the software giant actually intends doing in that arena.

ANALYSIS

ITIL and Cobit key to corporate governance
Eric Jorgensen, Micromuse continent director - Africa

In SA, new legislation enacted over the past five years is being operationalised, leaving many large organisations with no shortage of challenges. In addition, regulatory requirements are set to increase globally. Unclear process and control requirements, tight deadlines and limited resources for accomplishing these goals exacerbate the situation.

TECHNICAL

Cool in the heat of the action

Gigabyte Technology, together with Rectron, has introduced the GV-RX70128D graphic accelerator, with 'SilentPipe noiseless cooling technology, to local users.

Linspire your desktop

With Linux increasingly favoured by businesses and many consumers as a preferred operating system, software republisher Phoenix Global Software recently announced that it is introducing Linspire to the retail market.

Red Hat Linux 4.0 offers power, security
Tom Henderson, Network World (US)

When Red Hat rolls out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (RHEL 4.0) before the end of the month, the red carpet treatment may be warranted. In our test of this operating system package (we tested RHEL 4.0 Advanced Server, Red Hat's most robust Linux distribution), we found huge performance gains over previous editions, beefed up security options, and vastly improved hardware detection mechanisms.