Microsoft's "Innovation Starts Here"
Microsoft's "Innovation Starts Here" Heaps Praise on Gold Partner LINKdotNET

Cairo, Egypt, November 2005

As yet another indication of LINKdotNET's prominent international status, Microsoft's "Innovation Starts Here", a booklet dedicated to highlighting the achievements of Microsoft's worldwide partners, has praised LINKdotNET's work in exclusively developing the Tejari portal. Tejari is the region's leading business-to-business E-marketplace.

The aforementioned booklet includes the accomplishments of 25 of Microsoft's partners worldwide that have innovatively combined technology with business needs or market opportunities in order to come up with workable and useful solutions for their clients. To be chosen for inclusion in this exclusive and highly selective booklet, from amongst scores of possible Microsoft partners all over the world, is clear recognition of the level of excellence attained by LINKdotNET. Worth mentioning is that with the exception of only one other company, all Microsoft Partners mentioned in the booklet are partners in either North America or Europe.

Link Development, the development arm of LINKdotNET specializing in the areas of portals development, e-commerce, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Intelligence, Wireless and e-branding solutions, completely re-designed Tejari's portal using Microsoft technologies. The end result, achieved after just six months, was an extremely user-friendly and personalized portal that allowed Tejari to drastically expand its customer base by 30%. All this was achieved at a much lower cost than would have been possible if any other solution were used; the entire process having cost Tejari a third to a fourth of what it would have cost otherwise.

According to Karim Bichara, CEO of LINKdotNET:"It is quite an honor to be mentioned in" Innovation Starts Here." The booklet celebrates distinction, innovation, and dedication to excellence. These qualities constitute the goals we aspire to achieve at LINKdotNET. To have been chosen by Microsoft for inclusion in the booklet and being a Microsoft gold certified partner, which is the top level of Microsoft solutions partners, is proof of our success in achieving those goals. We will continue to strive to serve our clients even better in the future,"

As further indication of Microsoft's appreciation of LINKdotNET's achievements, the company was selected during Velocity, the Microsoft Worldwide Partner to receive Customer Experience of the Year

Microsoft's praise of LINKdotNET in "Innovation Starts Here", and its selection to receive the Customer Experience and Technology Partner of the Year Awards, vividly point out the fact that LINKdotNET is an internationally recognized solution developer, on par with leading companies in the field worldwide. This recognition extends well beyond LINKdotNET's work with the Tejari portal. In fact, it is recognition of LINKdotNET's contributions to the IT industry in Egypt and in helping to put Egypt on the map of the ICT world.

About Link Development
Founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of LINKdotNET, LINK Development is the fastest growing regional software export powerhouse. The company works on challenging projects that employ the latest technologies, serving governments, multinationals and local companies in Europe, The Middle East and Africa.

LINK Development, the software and services arm of LINKdotNET, achieved ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI Level 3 Certifications, further complementing the company's current standing as a world-class provider of e-solutions. The company focuses on portals & intranets, e-commerce, Enterprise Integration, Microsoft CRM implementations, Helpdesk Solutions, Unified communications and IPTV. Our vertical offerings focus on both telecommunications and government domains.

LINK Development is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Business Process and Integration, Custom Development Solutions, Information Worker Solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions and Advanced Infrastructure Solutions.

LINK Development, the internationally awarded company, is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt with offices in Dubai, UAE, Riyadh, KSA and Doha, Qatar and is currently opening several other offices in the region and in Europe.

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