Apart from government, SA businesses and citizens benefitting from the use of Open Source Software, it is also important to have local companies being paid to provide training, support, as well as implementation (and creation) of Open Source Software. For many small businesses and government departments who do not have in-house technology people to perform these functions, such services are essential for the successful adoption of Open Source Software.
Any South African business or organisation can be listed here at no cost if the provision of Open Source Software services are core to their business, so that such resources are available to those who wish to use them.
FLOSSNet – training, consultancy services, website hosting
Jumping Bean – training, consulting services, support, software development
Linux Warehouse – training, consultancy services, product distribution and support, enterprise hosting
nTier Software Services – Enterprise open-source solutions using mainly mature open source software.
Obsidian Systems – official Ubuntu training, consultancy services, risk compliance, product distribution and support, enterprise hosting
Openup – built National Treasury’s Vulekamali budget portal
Red Hat – training, consultancy services, product distribution and support, enterprise hosting
SUSE – consultancy services, product distribution and support, enterprise cloud hosting
TechSurve – migrations from commercial databases to open source databases, and a number of initiatives on the go with government to migrate to FOSS.
Torque IT – LPIC certification Linux training
SAB&T TEC – SUSE certification and other Linux training