{"id":548453,"date":"2006-04-06T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T07:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548453-it-folk-given-a-boost-with-ubuntu-training.html"},"modified":"2006-04-06T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T07:07:43","slug":"it-folk-given-a-boost-with-ubuntu-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548453-it-folk-given-a-boost-with-ubuntu-training.html","title":{"rendered":"IT folk given a boost with Ubuntu training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Workshops were held in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and East London to teach them Ubuntu, a free-to-use suite of business software. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The need for training was urgent because an increasing number of companies and individuals were switching to open source rather than use paid for brand-name programs, said the project manager Tjipo Mothobi. That switch was creating a demand for technicians with the necessary skills to support them. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The workshops gave the trainees the technical skills to earn an internationally recognised certificate in competence on the Linux operating system. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">They were also taught business, financial and marketing skills so they could keep themselves employed, said Mothobi. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are confident that open source software will make an impact in the business arena,\u201d he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A THOUSAND software support specialists working for small- and medium-sized enterprises were trained in open-source software last month in a R3m initiative by the Go Open Source Campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}