Speaking at the event Rob Lith, CEO of Connection Telecom, a company specialising in Asterisk VoIP solutions and distributor of Digium products, said the company had doubled its revenue in the last financial year and projects similar growth for the next reporting period.

Lith said Connection Telecom is currently supplying support and products to more than 180 clients, most of which are Linux integrators.

"We are seeing small and medium companies, not only making a living out of Asterisk, but making tidy profits. Looking at the market and the recent acquisitions we can see that OSS services is an attractive business to be in," he said.

FOSS is also making headway in the academic space and the University of the Western Cape's Derek Keats spoke about the successes of the African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) project.

AVOIR is a collaboration project between various universities to create a core of free software developers who are able, through software development activities, to create educational and business opportunities that contribute to development on the continent, said Keats.

Keats said the initiative has grown to include 16 universities and although the project is only 18 months old, the interest has gone far beyond what was expected.

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