Gteko Ltd., a leader in ease-of-use networking and support software for the digital home, today announced it has invested in Codefidence Ltd, a provider of consulting and development services to OEMs and enterprises using open-source software.

Codefidence Specializes in Open Source Services and Widens Gteko’s Solution Offering

RA’ANANA, Israel, March 17, 2006 – Gteko Ltd., a leader in ease-of-use networking and support software for the digital home, today announced it has invested in Codefidence Ltd, a provider of consulting and development services to OEMs and enterprises using open-source software. The investment will allow Gteko to enhance the solutions it offers its customers by complimenting the company’s traditional Windows-based products with open source solutions.

Recently, open-source software products have generated a lot of interest, thanks to the lower cost and increased flexibility often attributed to such solutions. Codefidence was founded to address the resulting growing use and dependence of OEMs and enterprises on open source, and to provide them with services that help to take advantage of the opportunities presented by open source.As part of this strategic relationship, Gteko plans on leveraging Codefidence’s expertise and specialization in open source solutions and incorporating them into its own products, resulting in enhanced and more robust ease-of-use networking and support software for the company’s customers.

About Codefidence Ltd.

Codefidence is a privately held company, providing consulting and development services for OEMs and enterprises using open-source software. The company was founded in 2003 by Gilad Ben-Yossef and Limor Pipman, two veterans of the Israeli technology sector, to address the need for a professional, independent knowledge center specializing in the area of open source. Since its inception, Codefidence has built a unique team which includes key technologists from the Israeli open source community and has acquired a customer portfolio which includes Fortune 500 companies from the IT and telecom sectors as well as enterprise customers. To find out more about Codefidence, please visit the company’s website at www.codefidence.com.

About Gteko Ltd.

Gteko founded in 1992, is headquartered in Ra’anana Israel, with offices in New York and Tokyo. The company’s wide variety of ease-of-use and support solutions, improve end-user experience while enhancing support capabilities and reducing costs for the support provider. Today Gteko~Rs comprehensive support suite is successfully deployed by industry leaders such as HP, Cisco-Linksys and Canon to provide support services to tens of millions of users worldwide. To find out more about Gteko, visit the company’s website at www.gteko.com.

For More Information Contact:

Shira Galili-Berman
Gteko Ltd.
+972-9-776-6466
shira@gteko.com

Gilad Ben-Yossef
Codefidence Ltd.
gilad@codefidence.com
+972-9-8650475 ext. 201

An article (in Hebrew) by Gilad Ben-Yossef, Codefidence CTO, in the Israeli Walla Tech web magazine, about an amusing discovery made by Codefidence with regards to the Israeli telecommunication company Bezeq, as part of Codefidence involvement with the Open Source Asterisk project and it’s adaption to work in Israel.

To the article…