New Exclusive Representative for Actuate in Israel

The Israeli company PerformanceSense has announced an exclusive deal to represent Actuate in Israel.
Among their new activities PerformanceSense will also lead the technical activities for Birt, the Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools system, which Actuate originally sponsored and still develops and supports.
Source BubbleTech (in Hebrew)

First Large (1.5m Euro’s) Contract for Israeli Company Traffix Systems

The Marker reports (in Hebrew) that the Israeli company Traffix Systems has landed their first large contract with Spanish Telefonica and Turkish TurkCell.
The contract is for 1.5 million Euro’s part of which comes from the European Union. Traffix is reported to be part of a project were mobile telephone customers will be able to dynamically […]

Sun to Deliver Open Source Solutions for the Israeli Ministry of Education?

Paz Weisman reported (in Hebrew) that the Israeli Ministry of Education and Sun Microsystems signed a 3 year contract between them.
Speculations are that Sun is planned to deliver Open Source computing solutions, including support and implementation for Open Office and Linux on a few thousand computers during the first phase. Sun will also assist in […]

Eee PC Makes Its Debut in Israel

Bezeq, Israels largest telecommunications provider, will start supplying ASUS Eee PC’s, according to Refael Fogel at The Marker IT.
Bezeq will supply the PC’s exclusively until April, and the Eee’s will be provided with Windows XP.
In April the Eee will be available through other retailers and will be installed with Xandros.
[via Lior Kaplan]

Is OpenOffice.org.il Dead?

Bad news reported, by Adar Shalev and Ehud Keinan (in Hebrew), in the popular Israeli news site Ynet.
The current support that the Hebrew version of OpenOffice is getting from the Israeli Ministry of Finance ends this month. As a consequence, the company currently maintaining OpenOffice.org.il, TK Open Systems Ltd., announced yesterday that the project is […]

Want to develop a new Open Source project?

Hi,
Zeev contacted me to help spread the word for a project he is looking to sponsor called “gKiosk”. gKiosk is intended to be a Gnome Photo Kiosk.
Although this is a product with a small niche, any new Open Source project is a good thing (in my opinion).
If you want to see the details and/or bid […]

Yahoo! entered an agreement to acquire Zimbra for $350 million

Techcrunch posted about the breaking news of Yahoo! buying Zimbra.
Zimbra has an Open Source web-based office suite including email, calendar, contacts, voip and more.
Read more about the acquisition:
Yahoo! YODEL ANECDOTAL blog
Zimbra website
Slashdot

Making Money From Open Source

Duncan Riley has an interesting post on TechCrunch “How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source“.
The post is about Matt Mullenweg the founder of Automattic, and his comments on making money from Open Source. As a general rule I am all for making profit from Open Source, it helps keep the engine running.
I […]

Open Source Links for 20-Aug-2007

Lowering the bar to open-source sales - Matt Asay, CNET
Q&A with Linus Torvalds - Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network
A discussion regarding Microsoft submiting the MSPL to the OSI
Tighter budgets mean more Open Source - OpenSoureCommunity.org
ClamAV deal is new marker for open source merger market - Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet

Open Source [the] Business Results

Thoughts about the process of starting a new company / product:
I read some articles about why you should choose Open Source (or not), when deciding on how to develop your next winning software solution. You can also find information covering different business strategies to follow in order to succeed in the Open Source industry (No […]

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