Magento eCommerce

www.magentocommerce.com
Magento was a direct response to the emerging new needs of today's online merchants. More than any feature or functionality what merchants really needed was "flexibility."

The primary goal with Magento was to develop a platform that put the control back in the hands of the online merchant and placed no constraints on business processes and flow.

VCS - Virtual Card Services

www.vcs.co.za
Virtual Card Services - was established in 1996 to offer a solution to the mail order market which found conventional methods of securing large volumes of credit card payment cumbersome and costly.

With more than 50 years collective experience in developing and implementing credit, debit and smartcard processing systems for all of the major card issuers in South Africa, Virtual Card Services was quick to identify the niche presented in providing a solution which exactly meets these needs.

Netcash

www.netcash.co.za
Netcash offers simple, cost effective and efficient Debit Order, EFT Payment and Credit Card services.

The account registration procedure is completed online and your service agreement will be forwarded to you by email for completion. There are no lengthy approval times for a Netcash merchant account. Implementation of the service can be done in a matter of hours.

Netcash service agreement has no fixed timeframe which allows you the flexibility to discontinue the services at any time.

Ubuntu Linux

www.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more.

Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world.

Solution Crew

www.solutioncrew.co.za
Solution Crew is an Open Source Support provider, but with a twist. They provide analysis and expert consulting of your organization's requirements, with you, and find the best solutions to the technical challenges your business faces, no vendor lock-in. Just Solutions.

How 2 Centos

www.how2centos.com

How 2 Centos is a great resource for Administrating Centos and Red Hat based systems. Run by another great Systems Administrator, George Rushby.

How 2 Centos has regular updates, and new posts a bout emerging technologies.

Riaan Nolan

www.riaannolan.com

Personal Blog of Riaan Nolan. How-to documents for some Open Source Applications I found useful.

Linux System Administration Tutorials and Interesting articles about, eCommerce and eMarketing.

Quirk eMarketing

www.gottaquirk.com
Quirk eMarketing, without a doubt, one of THE BEST eMarketing agencies, in the World. Gotta Quirk is a Blog from the talented minds at Quirk eMarketing, with very useful, real world case studies of Marketing genius.

Having worked at Quirk as their Systems Administartor, for 5 years, I will always have a soft spot for them.

During my time at Quirk, I can honestly say, I have met some of the most hardworking, dedicated people I have seen in a long time. They are a great resource for any Marketing campaign, or Marketer interested in getting the most out of eMarketing.

Interspire

www.interspire.com
As a Platinum in Interspire's Partner program, Buyx Online can reccommend using Interspire eMail Marketer. Built on the Open Source Philosophy, your company is able to take advantage of this flexible application for High Volume eMail sending.

Buyx Online can Install this application on your own hosted Infrastructure, together with Domain Keys and SPF Records, we can ensure that your eMail is always delivered.

RSA Web - South Africa

www.rsaweb.co.za
RSAWEB is an established and rapidly expanding Internet Services Provider, specializing in Internet access, hosting and enterprise-class data centre solutions.

Since inception in 2001, RSA Web has been building successful relationships in a wide range of markets including Corporate, SME and home-user customers.

RSA Web offers a combination of competitive prices, world-class infrastructure and hands-on technical expertise, and provides you with greater value for your money.

Hetzner Online - Germany

www.hetzner.de
Hetzner Online is an international internet hosting company and is one of the largest data center operators in Germany.

The company, founded in 1997, registers and hosts around 250.000 domains worldwide, offers web space and supervises 30.000 dedicated servers in our own high-capacity data center in Nuremberg and Falkenstein/Vogtl.

SevenL Networks - Canada

www.sevenl.net
SevenL Networks began operations under Cassius Adams with the assistance of Carey McLelland and Todd Berman in April 2003. David Gallo joined shortly after and helped bring SevenL to the next level.

Buyx Online has known SevenL Networks for many years, having found them back in 2002 on the Gentoo Linux Website. We have complete confidence in reccommending SevenL Networks for any company looking for excellent service and Reliable hosting.

SMSs - Mobile SMS

www.smss.co.za

SMSS realised the enormous potential of sms-marketing and offer businesses the opportunity to participate in their unique system through utilizing the SMSS platform through linking a fantastic marketing tool (sms & mms marketing) and cellular phone technology and address the marketing aspects and service delivery levels simultaneously.

Every business concerned about service delivery, new clients, his client-database, client retention, automation and constant growth, will benefit beyond expectation through utilizing the SMSS system.

ViaMedia - Mobile Solutions

www.viamedia.co.za

ViaMedia is a cellular solutions and innovations service provider seeking to enable small, medium and large companies in embracing the mobile revolution and developing strategies that will take their products & services into the mobile environment.

ViaMedia, through their strong consultancy and cellular technology skills, is well suited to assist you in "going mobile". Furthermore, they have developed a suite of products that businesses can make use of immediately in order to bring down the barriers of making use of cellular technology in marketing strategies.

Form Function - Digital consultans

www.formfunction.co.za
FormFunction is a digital consultancy. They are specialist web and mobile application developers with a strong focus on web 2.0 & social media applications. FormFunction formed to fill the gap of skilled professional and experienced advisors and provide guidance and resources in a variety of areas.

One of these areas is Social Media Application development and integration, and they are very active especially in the South African Facebook Application Development community, having hosted and driven two of the local developer garages.

Silicon Cape Initiative

www.siliconcape.com

The Silicon Cape vision is of an ecosystem in the Western Cape of South Africa, that serves to attract and bring together local and foreign investors, the brightest technical talent, and the most promising entrepreneurs, to foster the creation and growth of world-class global IP start-up companies in an environment that competes with other similar hubs around the world against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful settings and pleasant places to live, work and play on the globe.

The concept of the Silicon Cape is not owned or controlled by any single entity. It is a living community and an organic, ever-developing concept in the hearts and minds of every participant, which endeavours to catalyse the local IP entrepreneurial community.