About Us

Opennet Middle East & Africa (MEA) is the Master Distributor and authorized Certified Training & Education Center for Red Hat Inc. in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and all African French-speaking countries. Opennet’s major share holder is GMH, one of Tunisia’s Top 5 holding groups.

Setting up its MEA headquarters  in 2003 in Dubai, Opennet's strategy is to work closely with its channel partners in the region and their customers by providing a complete range of consulting and professional services, assisting organizations and companies with the assessment, design, and implementation of open source solutions ensuring high availability, reliability, performance, scalability and manageability within IT environments. Opennet's key contribution has been to provide high end technical skills to complement the leading technologies produced by Red Hat.

Opennet Milestones

1999 : OPENNET Software is founded in Tunisia
2000 : OPENNET Software named as the exclusive Master Distributor for Red Hat in North, West and Central Africa
2001 : OPENNET Software wins a public tender for training and certifying 200 people from different ministerial and governmental agencies in  Tunisia
2003 : OPENNET Software is authorized to distribute Red Hat Linux and services in the Middle East region.
2003 : OPENNET MEA was established in Dubai Internet City FZ (UAE) as headquarters for the the company's Middle East & African distribution operations
2004 : OPENNET MEA wins the Red Hat Training Award & is named the best Red Hat training partner in the regions.
2005 : OPENNET MEA has the largest share of the open source solutions market in the enterprise & large enterprise segment
2006 : OPENENT MEA opens an office in KSA (based in Jeddah), delivering local support to partners in KSA
2007 : OPENNET MEA appointed distributor for the JBOSS family of middle-ware products from Red Hat