With over ten years experience in the implementation and support of Open Source based projects Opennet MEA represents a centre of excellence for advice on Open Source adoption with ongoing service and support.
As an established distributor or Red Hat and a recent Zimbra Distributor in the Middle East & North Africa, Opennet’s primary role is the supply of subscriptions to resellers and system integrators across the territory.
Opennet also offers a wide range of support services to its partners from updating them with the latest offerings from its vendors to a local call centre support to training and certification. Opennet’s technical staff work closely with its partners to advice and develop the right solutions to deliver to their customers.
Opennet’s training and certification centre has trained and graduated more than 400 RHCE and 200 RHCT Red Hat students around the Middle East and Africa region
Opennet’s Major Share Holder is GMH, one of Tunisia’s Top 5 Holding Groups with more than $400 Million Total Sales in Various Industries for FY'2005.
Opennet MEA was established in 2003 as the Master Distributor &Training Center for Red Hat Linux products for the Middle East &Africa regions. The company strategy was to work closely with channelpartners to assist them in providing best of breed Open Sourcetechnology & services to their customers. Opennet's keycontribution has been to provide high end technical skills tocomplement the leading technologies produced by Red Hat, which in turnhave enabled channel partners to deliver and support Red Hat solutions.
Opennet MEA aims to transfer its expertise in deploying RedHat Linux to the Middle East & Africa regions by providing a fullrange of consulting, support and educational services. We also assistorganizations with the assessment, design, and implementation ofprofessional Linux solutions to ensure high availability, reliability,performance, scalability and manageability within their ITenvironments.
The Major Share Holder of Opennet is GMH, one of the Top 5Holding Groups in Tunisia with more than $ 400 Million of Total Salesin Various Industries for FY'2005.
Opennet Milestones
1999 : OPENNET Software is founded in Tunisia.
2000 : OPENNET Software named as the exclusive Master Distributor in North, West and Central Africa by Red Hat Inc.
2001 : OPENNET Software wins a public tender fortraining and certifying 200 people from different ministry andgovernmental 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 InternetCity FZ (UAE) as headquarters for the Opennet Middle East & Africaoperations.
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 in the enterprise & large enterprise market.
2006 : OPENENT MEA opens an office based in Jeddah tosupport its operations in the KSA region It joins offices in Dubai andTunisia, delivering local support to partners.
2007 : OPENNET MEA appointed distributor for the JBOSS family of middleware products from Red Hat
Number of employees in 2006: 21 employees.Out of whom 17 were Red Hat certified technicians & engineers (RHCE) and 6 were Red Hat certified examiners (RHCX).Graduatedmore than 350 RHCE and more than 200 RHCT Red Hat students from (UAE,KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt,Tunisia, Algeria)