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 […]

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.

Mandriva Israel is Officialy Launching

Mandriva Israel, although operating since 2007, will officially launch on February 28th 2008.
Lets hope this with improve the Linux efforts in Israeli Schools.

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 […]

Open Source Advertising

“It is possible that what emerges could drive the development of ‘open source advertising’ “, said Eric Schmidt of Google in an announcement of a joint partnership with advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe.
According to the vague claims in the statement, the companies plan on developing “tools and business intelligence” that would not necessarily be proprietary…
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