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Datatec buys UK’s Inca Software for £7,3m

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Logicalis, the IT services arm of JSE-listed technology multinational group Datatec, has acquired Inca Software from its parent Avisen in a deal worth £7,3m (R84m). Inca is the largest IBM Cognos partner in the UK

The connections that disconnected Jo’burg

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The seeds of the crisis in Johannesburg’s chaotic billing system were sown five years ago when a R208m tender to upgrade the system was awarded to an inexperienced company whose directors have a record

IBM centennial film (video)

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The film features one hundred people, who each present an IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The film chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering

Long road to the top for Gijima’s chief geek

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Jonas Bogoshi’s rise to become leader of one of SA’s most prominent listed IT companies, Gijima, is filled with stories of how he overcame hardship. The rags-to-riches story is a fairly common one shared by SA’s black elite, but

“Who am I Online” questions remain unanswered

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JSE-listed technology services group Gijima appears to be no closer to resolving its dispute with the department of home affairs over the validity of the R2,5bn “Who Am I Online” contract. The group has advised shareholders that it is still seeking a “commercial resolution” of the dispute in a bid to avoid taking legal action.

Harvey Jones comes unstuck

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One of the country’s leading business intelligence software companies, Harvey Jones, has been forced into a dramatic restructuring after its UK parent, London-listed Avisen, refocused its business. It’s understood that Harvey Jones, which had employed about 30 people, has been forced to reduce its headcount dramatically. Now MD Keith Jones is leading a management buyout of the local company but he says he is unable to comment until the deal is wrapped up, probably sometime next week.

A race for smarties

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Operating systems were all the talk last week at Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s annual confab in Barcelona. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia and others are engaged in a battle over whose software will run the next generation of smartphones