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Causing trouble! Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO WSO2 September 13, 2011
History
2005 IBM Funding SOAP Grad school XML tsunami Mountain View History Apache LSF Sri Lanka Emsworth CA WS-* Palo Alto Colombo HTTP $11.5M
Technology
High Availability Data Services Axis2 Sandesha PHP Java ESB C OSGi Business Process Management Gadgets Technology Policies App Server Governance Identity Management Authorization Axis Java Security Authentication Clustering Rampart ETL Business Rules Business Activity Monitoring
Business
Customer is not always right Open source Passion Pay for maintenance Apache license One team Business Attention to detail No gimmicks Simple pricing All products free One product No discounts No focus groups Innovate everything
Culture
No broken windows Results, not process Passion Commitment Ask for forgiveness, not permission Question everything Clean up after yourself Meritocracy Culture Honesty No hierarchy Iterate everything Failure is normal No 9-to-5 Integrity No sacred cows Context, not rules No sir/madam Be human No politics
People
Committed to winning Dedicated Work hard Self-motivated Work-life balance Passionate People Play hard Committed to excellence Personal brand Personal vision Everyday learning Confident Empowered
Sri Lanka
Awards & recognition!
Customers!
What next? “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
We have a long way to go … … we are still being ignored  Thank you!
Introducing today’s keynote speaker Dr. C Mohan, IBM Fellow

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Keynote-WSO2: Disrupting the middleware industry

  • 1. Causing trouble! Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO WSO2 September 13, 2011
  • 3. 2005 IBM Funding SOAP Grad school XML tsunami Mountain View History Apache LSF Sri Lanka Emsworth CA WS-* Palo Alto Colombo HTTP $11.5M
  • 5. High Availability Data Services Axis2 Sandesha PHP Java ESB C OSGi Business Process Management Gadgets Technology Policies App Server Governance Identity Management Authorization Axis Java Security Authentication Clustering Rampart ETL Business Rules Business Activity Monitoring
  • 7. Customer is not always right Open source Passion Pay for maintenance Apache license One team Business Attention to detail No gimmicks Simple pricing All products free One product No discounts No focus groups Innovate everything
  • 9. No broken windows Results, not process Passion Commitment Ask for forgiveness, not permission Question everything Clean up after yourself Meritocracy Culture Honesty No hierarchy Iterate everything Failure is normal No 9-to-5 Integrity No sacred cows Context, not rules No sir/madam Be human No politics
  • 11. Committed to winning Dedicated Work hard Self-motivated Work-life balance Passionate People Play hard Committed to excellence Personal brand Personal vision Everyday learning Confident Empowered
  • 15. What next? “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
  • 16. We have a long way to go … … we are still being ignored  Thank you!
  • 17. Introducing today’s keynote speaker Dr. C Mohan, IBM Fellow