Build or buy?
It's said that the lifeblood of an IT economy is the state of its software development industry. Brainstorm asks local developers about the skills crisis and the build versus buy question.
01 July 2007
What is the state of custom development in South Africa? How far can you go with packaged software? And what is the state of development skills?
Attending a Brainstorm roundtable to put their perspectives forward were: Malcolm Rabson, MD of Dariel Solutions; Steven Cohen, MD of Pastel Software; Rudi Leibbrandt, practice manager at Sybase SA; Johan Myburgh, product development director at Flowcentric; Leizel van Staden, business development manager at i5 Group; Brett Kinsey, senior manager of partners at MTN; Sandy Pullinger from nFold; Tim Toussaint, business development manager for SAP SA`s ISV programme; Mark Pardini, COO of Izazi; Mandla Thabo Qhobosheane, director of marketing and communications at Working Webs Consulting; Mark Oelofse, software sales manager at Sun Microsystems SA; and Mark Dorfling, business unit manager of software infrastructure at Comztek.
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