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company”—also never got off the ground.4 In late 2001, the people behind
Linuxvision established a new company, iShebaPlanet, which focused on
tailor-made software solutions, especially medical software for Palm Pilot
handhelds.5 iShebaPlanet was headquartered in Dubai with a branch in
Egypt. The new enterprise was not especially successful either. In 2002, it
was taken over by CompuEx, an Arab-Pakistani-American computer retailer,
later eReseller, and then Internet Service Provider in Houston (est.
1984), who continued to sport the logo for a few years before dropping it
again in favour of “Linuxvision,” which continued to be run by Ahmad
“Alan” Darwish out of his home in Oak Park, IL, where he offered support
for the company’s three Linux-based Java applications until 2006.6 During
2007, Linuxvision.com mirrored Allah.com, then in 2008, after Ahmad’s
return to the Middle East (see below), it was transformed into the “Royal
Global Hajj Gateway,” Mecca, the “First Global Enerprise [sic] EGov Solution
with the new advanced Royal visionary gov2gov, B2B, end2end architecture.”
Again, however, this project faltered before being realized. The
domain ‘hajjgateway.com,’ registered by Ahmad Darwish on February 18,
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company”—also never got off the ground.4 In late 2001, the people behind
Linuxvision established a new company, iShebaPlanet, which focused on
tailor-made software solutions, especially medical software for Palm Pilot
handhelds.5 iShebaPlanet was headquartered in Dubai with a branch in
Egypt. The new enterprise was not especially successful either. In 2002, it
was taken over by CompuEx, an Arab-Pakistani-American computer retailer,
later eReseller, and then Internet Service Provider in Houston (est.
1984), who continued to sport the logo for a few years before dropping it
again in favour of “Linuxvision,” which continued to be run by Ahmad
“Alan” Darwish out of his home in Oak Park, IL, where he offered support
for the company’s three Linux-based Java applications until 2006.6 During
2007, Linuxvision.com mirrored Allah.com, then in 2008, after Ahmad’s
return to the Middle East (see below), it was transformed into the “Royal
Global Hajj Gateway,” Mecca, the “First Global Enerprise [sic] EGov Solution
with the new advanced Royal visionary gov2gov, B2B, end2end architecture.”
Again, however, this project faltered before being realized. The
domain ‘hajjgateway.com,’ registered by Ahmad Darwish on February 18,