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Today we announced our second cloud service: Cloud Identity. See: http://wso2.com/cloud/services/identity and you can use it right now at http://identity.cloud.wso2.com/. (We have a principle of not announcing vaporware!) This is basically our WSO2 Identity Server product converted into a multi-tenant identity management system and hosted on Amazon EC2 for scalable and reliable [...]

Shahani (my wife) is blogging! She has started with a great piece on what’s going on in Sri Lanka.

The February 8th issue of the Newsweek (International) magazine has an absolutely great article titled “End of the Rogue”. The article is about how the concept of a “rogue state” (apparently created the cold war days) is no longer valid and how the US needs to get past it. Not surprisingly many comments on [...]

We recently posted a slide deck that gives an updated overview of the WSO2 platform. This covers both our downloadable products as well as our cloud offerings. Enjoy!2010 Q1 WSO2 Technical UpdateView more presentations from WSO2.

Let me start by wishing everyone a wonderful 2010!Right from the get-go, WSO2 was designed to be a company that built a complete middleware platform. We set out to target the big guys who have a complete story, except with two key fundamental differences: our technical approach and our business model.Our technical approach is of [...]

Its baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!Still not registered? What are you waiting for??Do it now.

After a lot of hard work by a lot of people, we finally launched our cloud platform on Monday!Check out Paul’s blog for some info and of course the Web site. I will blog more later!

I gave a keynote talk this morning at EDGE APAC in Canberra on the topic of SOA .. sort of a walk thru the history, what has been achieved and what the future is like. Yeah, all in 1hr.State Of ServicesView more presentations from Sanjiva Weerawarana.

The entire WSO2 family grieves for Paul and his entire family at this sad time.

From the time we started WSO2, Paul and I have both been dead certain that we always wanted to be a truly open company. That is, not a proprietary/closed company which simply releases software under an open source license, but rather a company which is more like an open source project in terms of how [...]

Nope, not my title :-). Its an editorial by The Washington Times on October 28th. Really worth reading – it talks about how stupid the US is being by challenging Sri Lanka with a war crimes charge about how the LTTE war was won.

This is a great piece on Britain’s Guardian on what has happened in Sri Lanka and what is good for us going forward. In particular, the author touches on the misguided plan by the EU to cut off GSP+ trade concessions for Sri Lanka as a punishment for human rights violations. One of these [...]

Following up from the highly popular free SOA Summer Camp series we ran this past summer, we’ll be offering a one-day version of this in Santa Clara, CA in November. This is again meant to be a generic intro to SOA with WSO2 products being used for samples. Its not free but priced at just [...]

We’ve been doing a bunch of calls with customers giving them a technical update on our product platform. If you want to get a quick introduction to our 100% open source SOA product portfolio and our technical vision take a look!2009 Q2 WSO2 Technical UpdateView more documents from WSO2.If you want to talk to us [...]

Last week’s Sunday Leader newspaper had a reprint of an Indian Defence Review article about the war in Sri Lanka. The eight fundamentals they had identified were:Political WillGo To Hell (to the international community ;-))No NegotiationsRegulate MediaNo Cease-fireComplete Operational FreedomAccent on Young CommandersKeep Your Neighbors In LoopI can’t find the article on the Indian Defence [...]

[There are many scenarios where various corporations rape local consumers in various ways. I'm going to start a series of blogs on such activities with the hope of helping Sri Lankan consumers be more smart and not pay extra for things they don't need to pay (extra) for!]Recently Mobitel, the 2nd largest (I think) mobile [...]

A while ago I blogged how LTTE’s global arms procurement person (and their “head of international relations”) was still absconding. Well, no more .. KP is now ours :-).He was nabbed in Malaysia by Sri Lankan military intelligence folks and then brought to Colombo .. now being interrogated. He’s a PRIZE catch - he set [...]

Jonathan and I recently did a 2-night hike thru some parts of the Sierra-Nevada mountains recently. I was planning to write my own story but still haven’t been able to get to it .. so I’ll start with pointing to Jonathan’s blog on our trip!This is the first time I’ve done any true backpacking and [...]

Today is our “unofficial” official birthday - and today we celebrate 4 years of life!Actually there’s no one start date .. there was the day we incorporated the US company, the day the Sri Lankan company was incorporated, the UK company, the day we closed the funding (after changing name to WSO2 from Serendib Systems [...]

Sri Lanka’a GDP in 2008: Approximately $41B (page 16 of 2008 annual report)Italian Mob annual revenue (2008): Approx. $167B.LTTE’s annual profit (according to Jane’s Defense) in 2007: $200-300m. I remember reading somewhere that it was $300-400m but can’t find the reference. Assuming a profit margin of 20%, that’s at least $1.5B annual revenue.Walmart 2008 revenue: [...]

Prabath Siriwardena, who leads all of WSO2’s security work, including the Identity Server product, recently gave a summer school program on SOA security. These slides give the best no-nonsense, to-the-point, simple explanation of all of security that I have ever seen. Prabath covers authentication, authorization, WS-Security, WS-Security Policy, XACML, OpenID, Information Cards, WS-Trust, STS and [...]

Paul had given a talk at QCon in London earlier this year discussing some use cases that we’ve dealt with with our customers. He has some very useful anti-patterns towards the end of the talk!Three SOA Case StudiesView more presentations from Paul Fremantle.

The new Chrome OS is an interesting development indeed from Google.The Chrome browser is pretty much an OS already - each tab is a separate process and they use shared memory to load the common code etc. etc. .. its a mini-OS. If you think about the work Chrome (the browser) does, its pretty much [...]

Yesterday Oracle announced a major refresh of their middleware platform - basically the result of merging in BEA to Oracle. Some stuff (like getting rid of OC4J and using WebLogic would’ve been a no-brainer “thank god we’re done with that” decision) but other stuff must’ve been quite painful, especially for the people involved!From their press [...]

We’ve decided to sponsor OSCON 2009 .. if you are coming there and want to look us up please drop by! As always we have lots to tell you about what we’re doing and our customer success stories and more!

(I meant to write this on Monday but its been a crazy week!)The Twenty20 Finals on Sunday nite was amazing. Sri Lanka, which had played so well up until the finals, had its luck run out .. and Pakistan, which had a sputtering start, really got into high gear and um, whipped our butt :-). [...]

The 3Ms have been anchoring our bowling attack for a while now: Murali, Malinga and Mendis. But last nite’s semi-final against brought out another M-powered bowling weapon: Matthews. Wow, what a game .. of course Dilshan’s amazing knock of 96 was the key that gave the bowlers the room they needed to destroy the West [...]

Finally, an article that reflects the optimism that at least I personally feel is now common here in Sri Lanka.Here’s a small excerpt:June 18 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s economy can bounce back from its weakest growth in six years and become the “Hong Kong of India” as the end of almost three decades of civil [...]

The Lanka Software Foundation started a project at the beginning of this year to develop a P2P application framework (called Dalesa) and then a set of applications on top of that. Wathsala Withanage leads that work and has two other great team members working with him (Nuwan & Nishshanka).Wathsala has recently blogged about the architecture [...]

So cool to have those arms here in Sri Lanka. Damn! They didn’t invite me to come and shake ‘em!!!!!You know Sri Lanka’s become main-stream newsworthy when The Onion decides to send Michelle’s arms to Sri Lanka! I hope our tourism guys notice this and figure out what to do with the arms!

This is a great article by a US writer (Jim Luce) on the LTTE story. If you read nothing else about Sri Lanka’s terrorism story, please read this article - it gives a good dose of reality on what the LTTE became and is.And this bit of text explains quite well why I’ve been ranting [...]

Wow, I was just watching Al Jazeera and its amazing the global attack still going on against Sri Lanka. It looks like the world is very concerned about what may or may not have happened in the last 2 weeks of a 30 year war. Our military killed 20,000 people in 2 weeks after carefully [...]

Apache Stonhenge, the project we helped start in the Apache Incubator to build a set of SOA apps to demonstrate interoperability, just did their first milestone release. Congratulations to the team!Its quite a bit of work to get the first milestone out as the developers have to align the project with ASF requirements, learn the [...]

We just announced out recession-busting SOA summer school! Huh?This is the idea: many architects & engineers are out of work right now all over the world. What can we do to help? Well, unfortunately we can’t offer them jobs right now, but what we can do is help them get better versed in SOA [...]

Last week I was invited to give a talk at the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’s first Technical Summit, which was hosted by the Sri Lanka Navy. My talk was about the role of SOA and open source in building large scale net centric systems for defence purposes. My real objective was to try to encourage [...]

Ah, this is so great :). The UK government, which tried its best to get us to give a reprieve to LTTE, is now its getting its hand bitten by trying to help these crazies: Police hurt as UK Tamil protests turn violent.Look at that image .. its the BANNED LTTE flag being waved in [...]

It gives me great pleasure and pride to blog about my cousin Dr. Prithiviraj (Pruthu) Fernando receiving a Whitley Award for his work!Above: Pruthu receiving the award from Britain’s Pricess Anne.Pruthu’s an amazing guy .. he’s a medical doctor who’s first love was always animals. I remember growing up he used to have snakes and [...]

This is a GREAT article by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, on the Ministry of Defence Web site. I also had the pleasure of listening to him being interviewed by the BBC yesterday and it was hilarious how he told the BBC about UK’s incompetent, illegal and [...]

I was not born when Sri Lanka got independence from Great Britain in 1948, but I can now begin to imagine how people felt that day.Today is again our independence day, version 2.0.Its been just over 60 years since we got independence from Britain. The war with LTTE and other militant extremist groups has been [...]

Thanks, Mr. Obama.Oh and Ms. Clinton has put the brakes on Sri Lanka getting a $1.9B emergency bailout from IMF because we won’t give into terrorism.That’s ok sir and madam, we’ll figure our way out of this .. and you know, we’ll be the better for it. I’m all for us suffering and managing on [...]