my session in CAT Scope 11

1. Just Another CAT Stand Up Session
World Class ITians !!
Ahmed Massoud
ahmed.massod@gmail.com
Twitter : @ahmedeleven

2. Outlines
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Why am I doing this ?
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For each ITian
− Who is this guy ?
− His biography
− Some of his quotes
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What do you think about the future of IT ?

3. Why should we know about this ??!
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Most of IT celebrities are still alive .
− Isn't it a chance for us to learn from them ? ..
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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 .

4. And now
Let's Start the Game !!

6. Lawrence (Larry) Ellison - childhood
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Oracle's founder and CEO
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born in New York.
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At 9 months he contracted pneumonia
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his 19-year-old mother gave him to her relatives
in Chicago to raise
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Until he was 12 years old he did not know that
he was adopted
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His adoptive father had lost his real estate
business in the Great Depression

7. Larry Ellison – fail !!
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He has joined University of Illinois.
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During the final exams in his second year,
− his adoptive mother died
− he dropped out of school
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Joined the University of Chicago
− dropped out again after the first semester
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Moved to California
− For the 8 years , he has bounced from job to job

8. Larry Ellison – first success
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Worked as a programmer at Amdahl
Corporation
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Made his own company with 2 of his team
colleagues
− Called Software Development Labs

9. Larry Ellison – ORACLE appearance
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Came across a paper about RDBs
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won a 2-year contract to build a RDBMS for the
CIA
− The project's code name: ORACLE

10. Larry Ellison – Oracle appearance
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finished the project a year ahead of schedule.
− used the extra time to develop their system for
commercial applications.
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In 1980 , Ellison's company had only 8
employees
− revenues were less than $1 million
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in 1986, they got an initial offer with $31.5
million

11. Larry Ellison – ORACLE's drop
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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

12. Larry Ellison – ORACLE success
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In 1992 , made Oracle the industry leader in
database management software .

14. Larry Ellison - hobbies
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suffered serious injuries while body surfing and
mountain biking
− recovered from major surgery
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continued to race his 78-foot yacht, Sayonara,
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practice aerobatics in a succession of private
jets

15. Larry Ellison – body surfing

16. Larry Ellison – Sports success !!
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In 1998, Ellison and Sayonara won the Sydney to
Hobart race
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In 2010 , He won America's Cup yacht race

17. Larry Ellison - Quotes
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I have had all of the disadvantages required for
success.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared
for everyone telling you you're nuts.

19. Steve Jobs - Childhood
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Born in 1955, in San Francisco, California
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adopted by Paul Jobs
− after he promised that they would send Jobs to
college.
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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

20. Steve Jobs – First Success
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started a company in a garage on 1976
− He was 20 years old
− With his friend Steve Wozniak
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Made the first Apple
− A local store offered to bought 50 machines and to
finance the production
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Jobs sold his WV and Wozniak sold his HP Scientific
Calc.
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Apple couldn't stand the competition with IBM

21. Steve Jobs – his shock !!
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Jobs company came back again with Macintosh
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Steve jobs convinced John Sculley to leave
Pepsi Cola and to work as Apple CEO
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1986 , Apple revenues was 2$ billion and with
4000 employees
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Jobs fired by Sculley from Apple !!

22. Steve Jobs – back to achievements
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During the next five years he started two
companies
− NeXTStep
− Pixar

23. Steve Jobs - NeXTStep
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NeXTStep for building workstations

24. Steve Jobs - NeXTStep OS

25. Steve Jobs - Pixar
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made the first animated movie ( Toy Story )
− Was good enough to bring Jobs back as a billionare

26. Steve Jobs - Toy Story

27. Steve Jobs – back to Apple !
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1996 , Jobs convinced apple to buy NeXT and
make its software the foundation of the next-
generation Mac OS
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Steve Jobs was named Apple’s interim CEO in
1997
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He is the current CEO .

28. Steve Jobs – Mac OS

29. Steve Jobs – Mac Air

30. Steve Jobs - Quotes
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I've always wanted to own and control the
primary technology in everything we do.
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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of
what we do.
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and
a follower.

32. Tim Berners-Lee – the www father
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The man who invented the world wide web
(www)
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Born in 1955 in London, England
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His parents were both mathematicians
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graduated as a Physics major from Oxford
University in 1976
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he built his first computer using: a soldering
iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an
old television

33. Tim Berners-Lee – inventions
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In 1989 , proposed a global hypertext project
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designed to allow people to work together by
combining their knowledge in a web of
hypertext documents.
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Tim wrote
− the first World Wide Web server, "CERN HTTPd",
− the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a WYSIWYG
hypertext browser/editor
− ran in the NeXTStep environment

34. First Web Server ever !!

35. First Web Address ever !!
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The first website was :
− Info.cern.ch
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The first web address ever was :
− http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

36. Tim Berners-Lee - Quotes
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You affect the world by what you browse.
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Whatever the device you use for getting your
information out, it should be the same
information.

37. Tim Berners-Lee - Quotes
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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it
yet. The future is still so much bigger than the
past.
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Celebrity damages private life.
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single,
universal space.

38. What do you think about the future of IT ?

39. Questions ?!

40. Thanks :)