Shai Bentin wrote:
>Well, Usually IBM used to do its localization using a group (a company
>it owned) called Softel, which was set in Jerusalem. When IGSI was
>established IBM incorporated Softel into IGSI. It may have taken some of
>the localization development and moved it into IBM Haifa. The people in
>tel aviv are not actually supervising the development.
Most of Shai wrote is true. The localization group of IBM Israel (called
HCG == "Hebrew Competence Group") was once based in Tel-Aviv (before most
of the readers of this list got interested in computers, maybe even in milk
and fresh diapers), then was transferred to Jerusalem to an IBM subsidiary,
which is now integrated within IGSI. This is the group who contributed to
the Bidi support in Mozilla, and it is currently involved in developing
some Bidi support for the Linux platform, and should deliver some goodies
within a few weeks, provided that certain legal issues are resolved.
IBM Haifa is not involved in this effort, and IBM Tel-Aviv provides only
the policy guidelines (this means funding, guys, so don't under-estimate
this aspect). The development is done in Jerusalem, as befits such a grand
and holy project :-).
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Bidi Architect
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333
Mobile: +972 52 554160
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