South African Diary Farmers Milk Open Source

// October 27th, 2004 // General // 1,341 views

According to Tectonic, “South African dairy farmers are starting to use open source software to improve their farming techniques and outputs. ACS Online has developed a range of dairy farming-specific modules using PHP, Apache and MySQL running on Sun boxes with Solaris 9. The modules currently available include financial management, a sustainable pasture management system, livestock management and a performance analysis module which uses the Balanced Scorecard reporting technique.”

Nice to see this kind of innovation coming from our own shores, since it’s one of the important industries in the country.

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