About gha.com Ltd.
gha.com Ltd. provides education services within the Information
Technology and Communication (ICT) sector and has been doing this
successfully for more than 10 years. We are focused on the fast moving and still emerging markets
of Open Source / Free Software products by developing
services and products specifically targeted at that area.
Education in the Open Source market place
Education
within the ICT (Information and Communication technology) world and
especially within the Open Source / Free Software subset often is
considered to be less important than design, implementation,
programming and other aspects of that world.
We believe that this
is a grave mistake which hinders the adoption of newly emerging
technologies and the implementation of a new more integrative way of
designing and developing the new business software infrastructure.
The
ability to make informed decisions, follow those decisions through to
their conclusion, optimise and integrate the new and the
existing ICT environment is based on having access to the appropriate
knowledge at the right moment.
To be able to have access to that
knowledge we need to learn how to create order out of the chaos, out of
the immense amounts of available data, we are exposed to.
This is
particular relevant in the Open Source / Free Software field. The
almost infinite combinations of components, complex themselves, that
interrelate with different degrees of integration are extremely
difficult to come to grips with.
Organisations preparing
to include Open Source / Free Software components within their
infrastructure soon discover this complex minefield of component
dependencies, relationships and so on. To be able to take advantage of
the richness, quality and adaptability of Open Source / Free Software
people within the organisations need to develop new skills to be able
to integrate these new emerging technologies within their skills sets.
FOSS has changed the way in which networked computer systems are being designed. Using off the shelve Open Source components, interoperating in complex ways, has dramatically advanced the efficiency and reduced the costs of computer systems compared with closed source equivalent products.
