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Gilad and Reuven meet Billy Cina of Canonical, the company behind the successful Open Source OS distribution Ubuntu and Shay Gal-ezer from Compumedia at the Linux Israel 2009 Conference.
Compumedia has recently gotten some head lines as it won the bid to computerize Ehud olmert's (Israel's former Prime Minister) office with Open Source Software.If its cheaper and better why Isn't Open Source software being installed in all of Israel's Government offices?
Gal-Ezer Compumedia's CTO speaks about the software used at Olmert's office the fact that although Open Source software runs in the back they still provide Microsoft's Office suite at the front end. He speaks of the difficult state of Open source and standards at Israel, especially with regard to government recognition and use.
Near Shay sits Billy who speaks about Canonical's free OS distribution Ubuntu, their business model and the company behind Ubuntu.
