WSO2 celebrates five years of innovation

Committed to bringing Sri Lanka to the forefront of software technology, this year WSO2 celebrates five years of creating a global brand. Delivering the only complete open source middleware platform for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), WSO2 has established itself as the market leader and innovator in the field.

The brainchild of co-founders Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana and Paul Fremantle, both ex-IBM, WSO2 has grown into a global corporation with its main operations arm in Sri Lanka and offices in the US, UK and Australia. Acknowledged as leaders in XML and Web services technologies, open source, and open standards, WSO2 employs almost a hundred innovative thinkers in the country.

“Five years ago we had a vision that enterprise applications would be built using a distributed, compositional approach, talking to each other with open standards. As well as providing a solid, high performance platform for compositional applications, WSO2 has also created a new kind of modular, cloud-native platform to provide a vision for the next five years,” said CTO, Paul Fremantle.

Encompassing the breadth of enterprise middleware capabilities by hosting core services, WSO2 Carbon provides everything required to build a modern enterprise application in a simple and quick manner. WSO2 Stratos allows these applications to be deployed on public or private cloud infrastructure. The web based console allows easy access and configuration of middleware applications within an organization, so the provisioning of a new application becomes a simple self-service process.

WSO2 credits its success to great team work, passion and commitment, resulting from modeling the organization around a strong commitment to human development and an employee-centric work environment.

“We have built a global brand and a superb set of technology that our customers absolutely love! All this by a team of very young people who took the challenge to heart and simply made it happen,” said CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana.

All team members are encouraged to actively contribute towards every aspect of the company by communicating openly without fear of recrimination. This in turn nurtures WSO2’s sense of working in small, integrated, global teams that has helped take problem solving and innovation to a whole other level. The great team work and group cohesion has helped WSO2 successfully compete against industry giants such as IBM, Tibco and Oracle.

“In the process of selecting an SOA platform, we evaluated a number of leading SOA vendors. Without a doubt, WSO2 was the most knowledgeable and engaged firm we dealt with. Initially the Bank engaged WSO2 with their QuickStart offering, where several knowledgeable WSO2 consultants came on site to understand our use cases and to provide quick-start guidance on the relevant SOA products. It has become clear throughout our dealings that WSO2 truly does have our success in their sights. This fact, together with the WSO2 product stack delivering a true SOA platform that adheres to the core SOA ideology, has made WSO2 an unbeatable proposition. Our recommendation for WSO2 couldn’t be higher,” said Andrew Westwood, Vice President Enterprise Architecture, The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.

In a continued effort to put Sri Lanka on the forefront of technology, WSO2 will celebrate its fifth anniversary by organizing the first-ever WSO2Con to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Designed for a core audience of information technology and software executives, architects, and developers, the conference content will encompass the technologies, practices and changing business environment of modern enterprise IT. Under the title “SOA and Cloud Computing: Blueprint for the Future Enterprise”, WSO2Con 2010 will be held on the 14th and 15th of September at the HNB Towers, Colombo. Registration and more details are available in the Company’s web site - http://wso2.com