Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 09:52
The Southern African Association for the Conference Industry will be holding its biennial conference between the 14th and the 17th of August 2010. This illustrious and always well attended event is being hosted at the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel on Durban’s beachfront.
The Conference Company, a Durban based event and conference organising company, landed the contract to organise and manage the running of the conference next year. A vital part of the conference marketing is the establishment of a well built, easy to use and easy to manage website.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 09:49
THUSA is embarking soon on its largest project to date with the migration of Durban’s biggest law firm, Garlicke and Bousfield, from its current aging and unstable Novell platform to a new implementation of Microsoft’s Essential Business Server product.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 12:18
The new department specialises in creating high-quality internet communication products from high-end email marketing campaigns to complex web-based applications and e-commerce-driven websites.
THUSA makes use of the Drupal content management system which allows for complex functionality while being user-friendly enough to enable clients to control their own online content. Gareth Davies, lead front-end developer, is passionate about the need for this:
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 12:25
Recently Global Maritime Legal Solutions contracted THUSA's newly formed web design and development division to create a new and improved look for their internet presence. The main impetus behind this change was the inclusion of a new e-learning service that introduces distance learning on all aspects of customs and excise law to the South African market.
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 12:07
PRESS RELEASE: “Innovative South African developed product launched this week lowers technology costs for Small Businesses”, 16 July, 2009
Suggested pull quotes:
“Today we’re launching Vulani to the South African market. It is a very proud moment for this little company and, as far as we are concerned, for South Africa.”
– Warwick Chapman, Managing Director, THUSA
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 13:10
On 14 July 2009, Vulani will be launched in South African market. THUSA, the proudly South African company responsible for developing Vulani, have teamed up with organisations in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town to deliver a high tech online launch event that will showcase Vulani's features to the world.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 21:38
Durban, South Africa – 2 June, 2009
Participation in the world’s largest technology trade show, CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, has resulted in South African open source software innovator, THUSA securing an in important new client in Germany.
THUSA took advantage of the South African Department of Trade and Industry Export Marketing and Investment Assistance (EMEA) programme to attend CeBIT in March 2009 and exhibit its innovative Vulani server software solution.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 09:01
THUSA recently launched the Durban-based silk flower business, Silk By Design, into the e-commerce arena with a full overhaul of their website. Leveraging the power of the Drupal Content Management System and the excellent ecommerce application Ubercart, THUSA was able to streamline how Silk By Design managed their business online.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:23
Following on from a very successful website rebuild a few weeks ago, THUSA has just released it's spanking new brand model.
The culmination of a six month design cycle, with major input not only from the design and management teams, but the company as a whole and many outside contibutors, the new brand reflects a major move forward in THUSA's marketing strategy; making it more eyecatching, modern and memorable.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 14:43
THUSA was contracted by the The Conference Company, a Durban based conference organising firm, to create the website for the upcoming Water Institute of Southern Africa' biennial conference in April 2010. THUSA was tasked to create an easy-to-use website that would be quick to download, good to look at and easy to update.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 09:45
CeBIT is a massive affair – it is the largest ICT tradeshow in the world and fills almost 30 halls which are each as large as the ICC in Durban. The show runs over 6 days in early March in the city of Hannover in Lower Saxony, Germany. The size and scale of the show is such that 6 days is not nearly enough time to explore all the halls, especially when you have a stand to man and prospective client passing by every minute.
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 17:15
Free and open source software continues to gain traction in the South African government with more than 90 percent of CIOs and IT managers in favour of using OSS in their departments. And Arno Webb, head of the State IT Agency’s (Sita) open source programme, says that while open source migrations have been slower and not as widespread as originally hoped, government is now firmly on a path to wider open source use. We speak to Webb to gauge government’s open source progress.
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 09:46
Being a Microsoft Certified Partner has given Durban-based Linux specialists THUSA a competitive edge in a tough marketplace – being technology-agnostic means that they’re able to offer their customers the best of both open source and proprietary worlds.
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 18:38
PRESS RELEASE: "SA Open Source Solutions Provider Speaking at INDIASOFT and Exhibiting at CeBIT, Germany", 3 February, 2009
Durban based Open Source Solutions Provider, THUSA, has been invited to attend and speak at the INDIASOFT trade show to be held in Kolkata, India in late February 2009. THUSA MD, Warwick Chapman, will be speaking to the Indian software development community about the opportunities available to them on the continent of Africa and in South Africa especially.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 18:44
PRESS RELEASE: “South African OSS Developer wins Shorewall Logo Design Competition”, 7 January, 2009
A logo design by Gareth Davies, of South African Open Source Software developers, THUSA, has won the Shorewall Logo Design Competition. The announcement was made yesterday by Shorewall developer Roberto C. Sanchez.
THUSA makes extensive use of the Open Source firewall tool, Shorewall, in its Vulani server product which is due to be launched in South Africa in February 2009 and was eager to contribute to the Shorewall project through this unique opportunity.
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 16:31
Published in SmartXchange Newsletter, Volume 4, 10 November, 2008
True to her word, SmartXchange has become the first building in the eThekwini Municipality - other than municipal offices – to be linked to the City’s vast fibre-optic network giving tenants high speed bandwidth of a world class standard at no cost.
Jacquie Subban, Head of GIS & Policy of the eThekwini Municipality pledged that connecting SmartXchange to the City’s fibre network was a priority in the roll out strategy announced at a press conference in August this year.
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 19:30
PRESS RELEASE: "Thusa releases TABS Asterisk Telephone Management System under GPL", April 10, 2008
PHP-based TMS released to OSS community
Durban, South Africa, Thusa today released version 1.3.0 of their TABS Asterisk Billing System to the Open Source Community under the GNU General Public License v2.
