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20 000 Bika OS LIMS downloads
The surge in Bika downloads is picking up after a rather long year-end hangover and passed 20 000 at the end of March
More Foss interfaces for BBK
Bika anchor client BBK commissioned the development of bi-directional interfaces for their new Foss WineScan™ and FIAStar™ instruments. These are to be completed in time for Vintage 2009 harvest
Bika sponsors SA Spectroscopy Society
SASEV, SAWLA and now SASS. The South African Spectroscopic Society joins Bika's portfolio of national scientific organisations
Bika Mail 08. Yes we can!
'Same same but different' - It's that time again, madly busy, another year. 10 December 2008
DTI sponsors Bika Health LIMS
We are proud to announce to have received written confirmation that Bika Lab Systems was granted 50% of next phase Bika Health development cost by the SA Department of Trade and Industry's Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII)
BBK SAWLA lab of the year
BBK, Bika's anchor client in Worcester, South Africa, finished in combined first position in the SA Wine Laboratory Association's inter-laboratory proficiency testing scheme for 2008. BBK shared the top spot with Wynlab Services, Wellington, from a group of 45 participating laboratories
Hanoi LIS conference
Bika Health Foundation director Lemoene Smit, LIMS analyst at Bika Lab Systems, introduced the newly established non-profit foundation at the 2nd Global LIS conference in Hanoi, Vietnam recently, presenting Bika's Health LIMS. He found time to meet health ministry delegates, talk open source LIMS and contribute to technical discussions
Bika Health Foundation established
Following earlier proposals to differentiate more clearly between Bika's open source LIMS community and commercial activities, Bika shareholders established the Bika Health Foundation to focus on health laboratory systems but with wider scope than LIMS only
16 000 Bika downloads
A big surge in downloads after the release of Bika LIMS 2 Inkosi saw the total pass the 15 000 mile stone unnoticed...
Press Release: Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi open source release
Bika LIMS 2.1 Inkosi 'The Chief' is the next major public release of the professionally supported open source LIMS by Cape Town company Bika Lab Systems and was released 26 May on a general public license, free to download, install and use.
Python fastest growing programming language
According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular programming language. Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007 and has become the de facto glue language at system level.
LIMS Inkosi 2.0.21
A new alpha release of Bika LIMS 2 Inkosi has been installed on-line for evaluation, version 2.0.21. Check back, we will regularly post news as we head towards a first official release
Bika Interlab 1.2 released
Bika Interlab 1.2 GPL release · Web-based open source proficiency testing software
Minor Bika LIMS release
Imminent first release of Bika Interlab required modifications to the Bika LIMS 1.2 base it is skinned over. This is Bika LIMS 1.2.5, released today
SAWLA Interlab upgraded to 1.2
Soon to be released Bika Interlab 1.2 has been successfully rolled out at upgrade sponsors the South African Wine Laboratory Association
Bika CMS · Plone hosting and services
Bika Lab Systems provides Plone content management services and hosting to LIMS clients, and uses Plone extensively in-house. As secure on-line document repository and through products like Help and Software Centres at www.bikalabs.com. With our growing expertise, servers to spare and responding to increasing demand, Bika now brings stand-alone Plone hosting and CMS services actively to market