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Strategy. MarCom. M&A.

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MY BRIGHT iDEAS EFFECTIENE$$ for GLOBAL ISVs & IHVs EFFICIENCY
1998 FOUNDED OPENNET NEW AFRICA as ONE-MANSHOW with GOV’T$5K-MICRO-CREDIT & COURAGEOUS-BIG-DREAM
2002 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDS NOMINEE by WORLD TECHNOLOGY NETWORK “INTELLIGENCE” MAGAZINE USA
2002 FOUNDED OPENNET MEA in DUBAI-INTERNET-CITY as F1RST MULTI-MILLION LINUX & OPEN-SOURCE SERVICES COMPANY

PROUDLY SPONSORED AS F1RST STARTUP IN MEA BY


YOU INNOATE WITH YOUR HEART NOT YOUR HEAD
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you "It is only with the heart
can do, to keep in the same place… that someone can see rightly…

MOBILE
inMYDNA
since1998
wPALM

If you want to get somewhere else, you must what is essential


run at least twice as fast as that" socially yours is invisible to the eye"

seghaier.jamel@gmail.com @JamelSeghaier
fueling thinking }efficiency{ ahead }effectiveness{ is a beautiful habit
REDHAT LEGEND in MIDDLE-EAST & AFRICA
from ZERO [1998-mind-share] to HERO [2015-market-share] $100+ million
October 1998 Atlanta Linux Show Red Hat Booth Historic Strategic Partnership with
First Official Linux Exhibition in USA of Small Linux Start-up Bob YOUNG Red Hat Founder-CEO
Company Year My Bright iDeas
2012 “One Microsoft”
CEO Steve Ballmer Email to All-Employees 2013
2012 “One Windows” Platform
2012 “Productivity & Platform”
Leadership Contact : CEO Satya Nadella Email to All-Employees 2014
CEO Steve Ballmer 2013 Release Windows Server on ARM
EVP Stephen Elop 2013 Release Surface Pro 12” & 14”
2013 “The World’s Most Productive Tablet”
2013 Photo One Windows Phone + Surface + AIOPC for oneUX
2013 Acquire Yandex to Power Bing Search
2013 Acquire AMD to Power One Microsoft Silicon+Software
2013 Acquire NOKIA to Power Mobile Devices
2013 Release Office on iOS, Android & Linux

1998 Embrace Linux & Open-Source


2009 Acquire Palm (acquired in 2010)
2012 Enter 3D Printing Market
2012 “ONE BigData” Hardware+Software+Services
2013 Join Project OpenCompute.org
2013 Join SDN OpenDayLight.org
Executive Contact : 2013 Acquire Pentaho for BigData Analytics & BI
BOARD Ann Livermore (acquired by HITACHI for $500 Million in 2015)
CTO Martin Fink 2013 Acquire Mirantis for OpenStack Cloud Software
SVP Stephen Dewitt 2013 New Internet of Things Business Division
SVP Alberto Torres 2013 Windows+Android DualOS Tablet
SVP Ernest Sales (launched by ASUS as World Premiere in 2014)
2013 Acquire Airwatch for Security Mobile Management
(acquired by VMware for 1.5 Billion in 2014)
2013 Acquire Android Cover Apps (acquired by Twitter in 2014)
2013 Embrace Google ChromeOS for Laptops
2013 5.5”-6” Phablet for Emerging Economies with HPen Stylus
2009 Acquire Palm for Mobile Revolution
(acquired by HP for $1 Billion in 2010)
2011 Acquire SOFTLAYER
(acquire by IBM for $2 Billion in June 2013)
2011 Acquire GOOD Technology for Security Mobile Management
Leadership Contact : (acquired by BLACKBERRY $500 Million in 2015)
GM Michael Collins 2011 Strategic Partnership with ORACLE for X86 Servers & PC+
GM Dave Brooke

2013 Acquire Infor for Business Cloud Applications


2013 Acquire Mirantis for OpenStack Cloud Software
2013 Embrace Ubuntu for Scale-out Openstack-Cloud
2013 New Internet of Things Business Division
Leadership Contact :
VP Bob Sutor

2009 Embrace Mobile for Smartphones & Tablets


2010 Embrace Cloud with OpenStack
2013 New Big Data Business Division
2013 New Internet of Things Business Division
Leadership Contact :
Mark Shuttleworth

2008 Xandros CloudOS


(launched by Google as World Premiere 2009 ChromeOS)

Leadership Contact :
My leadership position
CEO Andy Typaldos Xandros+Scalix Business Development Manager
EuropeMiddleEastAfrica

So in the future, ideas will be the real scarce inputs in the world...scarcer than both labor and capital
and the few who provide good ideas will reap huge rewards.
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/04/17/the-rise-of-the-digital-capital-economy/?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_cioJournal

https://hbr.org/2015/06/you-innovate-with-your-heart-not-your-head
http://www.managementexchange.com/feature/what-matters-now

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