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 […]

CentOS.co.il

http://centos.co.il launched on Friday to help promote the CentOS Linux distro in Israel.
The site is in Hebrew, and backed by the http://linux-israel.net team.
They offer free support in the forums or paid support from the company.

[lack of] Support is the Key to Open Source Drawback

Insufficient support is the key drawback to using open source technology, according to “Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack”  the latest survey conducted by Unisphere Research for the IOUG and sponsored by MySQL.
A total of 226 people participated in the survey. Over half (53 percent) were database administrators. More than […]

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

Infoworld Best Open Source Awards

Infoworld published their “2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards” with the Best of Enterprise Open Source Software.
Categories include: enterprise monitoring, applications, networking, platforms and middleware, security and storage.

(fake) Larry Ellison on Oracle’s Open Source Strategy

Fake Larry Ellison writes “Our open source strategy“.
Funny? Sad? True? You decide…

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

Larry Ellison in Israel

Larry Ellison made his first visit to Israel this week, so Oracle Israel and Globes organized an invitation only live appearance for the members of the Israeli business and IT market.
I was hoping to hear from him a little bit about Open Source issues. Most of the talk was about the history of Oracle and […]

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