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Just Another CAT Stand Up Session
World Class ITians !!Ahmed Massoud
Twitter : @ahmedeleven
Outlines
Why am I doing this ? For each ITian
− Who is this guy ?− His biography − Some of his quotes
What do you think about the future of IT ?
Why should we know about this ??!
Most of IT celebrities are still alive . − Isn't it a chance for us to learn from them ? ..
Whoever you are and what ever you are doing you still have the chance to change the world .
− Every simple idea could be a reason for changing the world .
And now
Let's Start the Game !!
Lawrence (Larry) Ellison - childhood
Oracle's founder and CEO born in New York. At 9 months he contracted pneumonia his 19-year-old mother gave him to her relatives
in Chicago to raise Until he was 12 years old he did not know that
he was adopted His adoptive father had lost his real estate
business in the Great Depression
Larry Ellison – fail !!
He has joined University of Illinois. During the final exams in his second year,
− his adoptive mother died − he dropped out of school
Joined the University of Chicago− dropped out again after the first semester
Moved to California− For the 8 years , he has bounced from job to job
Larry Ellison – first success
Worked as a programmer at Amdahl Corporation
Made his own company with 2 of his team colleagues
− Called Software Development Labs
Larry Ellison – ORACLE appearance
Came across a paper about RDBs won a 2-year contract to build a RDBMS for the
CIA− The project's code name: ORACLE
Larry Ellison – Oracle appearance
finished the project a year ahead of schedule.− used the extra time to develop their system for
commercial applications. In 1980 , Ellison's company had only 8
employees− revenues were less than $1 million
in 1986, they got an initial offer with $31.5 million
Larry Ellison – ORACLE's drop
in 1990 the company posted its first losses− Oracle's market capitalization fell by 80%− The company was about to BANKRUPT !!− he replaced much of the original senior staff with
more experienced managers− channeled his own energies into product
development
Larry Ellison – ORACLE success
In 1992 , made Oracle the industry leader in database management software .
Larry Ellison - hobbies
suffered serious injuries while body surfing and mountain biking
− recovered from major surgery continued to race his 78-foot yacht, Sayonara, practice aerobatics in a succession of private
jets
Larry Ellison – body surfing
Larry Ellison – Sports success !!
In 1998, Ellison and Sayonara won the Sydney to Hobart race
In 2010 , He won America's Cup yacht race
Larry Ellison - Quotes
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Steve Jobs - Childhood
Born in 1955, in San Francisco, California adopted by Paul Jobs
− after he promised that they would send Jobs to college.
He went to college but decided to drop out because it was too expensive.
− Didn't have a dorm room− Slept on the floor in friends' rooms− Returned coke bottles for 5 Cents to have food
Steve Jobs – First Success
started a company in a garage on 1976− He was 20 years old− With his friend Steve Wozniak
Made the first Apple− A local store offered to bought 50 machines and to
finance the production Jobs sold his WV and Wozniak sold his HP Scientific
Calc.
Apple couldn't stand the competition with IBM
Steve Jobs – his shock !!
Jobs company came back again with Macintosh Steve jobs convinced John Sculley to leave
Pepsi Cola and to work as Apple CEO 1986 , Apple revenues was 2$ billion and with
4000 employees Jobs fired by Sculley from Apple !!
Steve Jobs – back to achievements
During the next five years he started two companies
− NeXTStep − Pixar
Steve Jobs - NeXTStep
NeXTStep for building workstations
Steve Jobs - NeXTStep OS
Steve Jobs - Pixar
made the first animated movie ( Toy Story )− Was good enough to bring Jobs back as a billionare
Steve Jobs - Toy Story
Steve Jobs – back to Apple !
1996 , Jobs convinced apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next-generation Mac OS
Steve Jobs was named Apple’s interim CEO in 1997
He is the current CEO .
Steve Jobs – Mac OS
Steve Jobs – Mac Air
Steve Jobs - Quotes
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Tim Berners-Lee – the www father
The man who invented the world wide web (www)
Born in 1955 in London, England His parents were both mathematicians graduated as a Physics major from Oxford
University in 1976 he built his first computer using: a soldering
iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television
Tim Berners-Lee – inventions
In 1989 , proposed a global hypertext project designed to allow people to work together by
combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents.
Tim wrote − the first World Wide Web server, "CERN HTTPd", − the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a WYSIWYG
hypertext browser/editor− ran in the NeXTStep environment
First Web Server ever !!
First Web Address ever !!
The first website was :− Info.cern.ch
The first web address ever was :− http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Tim Berners-Lee - Quotes
You affect the world by what you browse.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
Tim Berners-Lee - Quotes
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Celebrity damages private life.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
What do you think about the future of IT ?
Questions ?!
Thanks :)