tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11837784174765348462011-12-31T12:58:57.239-08:00Why so seriousss ? - The Joker, Dark Knight (2008)Devaka Randeniyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04860570690462285681noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1183778417476534846.post-90184994771117979822011-12-29T07:05:00.001-08:002011-12-29T07:05:57.073-08:00

I recently completed 5 years at WSO2. What a journey it has been. These five years have to be ‘the’ most defining years of my life. I turned 30 this year (and no that’s not old..!) and I have been blessed to be where I am today because of WSO2. It’s a rarity to be in an organization that becomes part of your lifestyle; to have a personal connection that goes beyond an ordinary employer-employee

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Here is an honest opinion. Nothing made up, just facts. I started my career in the IT industry in 2004. Joined one of the largest IT companies in Sri Lanka and started my industrial life as an engineer. As a member of the Research & Development lab my task was to build awareness on upcoming technologies within the company. The job had its interesting as well as dull moments, since you are trying

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Not the boasting kind, but for once I don't mind doing it ! :) Check it here. Jonathan, looking forward to working with you !

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Sorry for the fairly long radio silence. Been busy lately with lots of work. I started writing to a magazine here in Sri Lanka which is published every Sunday by the Sunday Times. You can check out the on-line version of the articles here under the "Mirror" weekly issues.

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So guess what... The most popular free and open source alternative to Microsoft Word "OpenOffice" is hitting an all time high on downloads. Its so much that their web site is down :) Here's a screenshot of it. (Sorry ! You need to squint your eyes to read it..but basically it says "Apologies - our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice...

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Funny equation isn't it ? :) But lets think about it for a bit. I think its a very timely subject. Most companies spend billions of $$ on their IT infrastructure. Most even boast about it, because they believe the more $$ you spend on your IT the better it becomes. This of course, brought in heaps of money to software vendors and system integrators. Good for them ! Bottom line - There was

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Here's something different :) I've been doing several presentations to CXO level audiences recently and I've gotten pretty good feedback. So I must be doing SOMETHING right and wanted to share some pointers that I follow when delivering a speech. 1 - Prior to giving your speech, get a feel of the audience There are different kinds of audiences and its not easy to figure them out. But what I

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Its all chaos in the business world these days. I'm keeping my eye out for the next big giant to fall ! :) I believe this is the opportune moment for Free and Open Source Software to shine. Delivering enterprise level solutions at incredible low costs. There was this barrier for FOSS when there was an industry proven, recognized proprietary software which was always the "1st option" for

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I was in India last week attending meetings with some of the biggest companies in the world. Namely TATA (Revenue: USD 62.5 billion), Infosys (Revenue : USD 4.18 billion), Wipro (Revenue: USD 8 billion) and Satyam (Revenue: USD 5 billion). The scale of operation of these companies are incredible. Apart from TATA, the rest are in the top 10 of the largest System Integrator companies in the world

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Quotes Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2. Check out the article "WSO2 releases PHP library for SOA development" published on SDTimes and see how this is possible using the WSO2 WSF/PHP.

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I'm not a techie guy.....not in the least bit ! But one thing I do know is that 'interoperability' is key to today's technology. It applies to both hardware AND software. It has come to a point where interoperability is discussed as a critical factor in every enterprise system being developed or being bought off-the-shelf. Take SOA for example. Interoperability is critical in this space, and if

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Alrighttt ! Here we go again ! WSO2 releases version 2.0 of the WSF/PHP. Download the release or visit the project home page on our WSO2 Oxygen Tank. I'm not going to brag about the technology awesomeness of WSF/PHP 2.0,  because there is a set of experts who knows how to explain that better than I do. Check their blog, PHP Web Services. What I'd like to look at is the business value of it. (

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Ok so. There's quite a lot of hype around Google Chrome. Not a surprise. Google has such an influence in the market today that even if they come up with total CRAP there will be hype all over it. But I'm not saying Chrome is crap....at least not yet. Its in a beta release so there is more to come and of course bugs are to be expected in this version of it. I started using Chrome today, and here

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I get spammed EVERY single day with at least 50 emails. It can really drive you up the wall, but sometimes you see the funny side of it. Here are some spam ($subjects) that I've gotten in the recent past. "Lengthen your sausage into a bratwurst" "Get a foot long pecker easily" "Upsize your manhood today" "Jessica Alba loves it huge" "Your love machine is set to ignite her

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These days we are having our annual basket ball tournament at WSO2. Had our 2nd round game today, but lost fair and square to a better team....'nuff said about that :) What came to my mind was the similarities of how the game is played and how open source software model works in general. Think of the ball as the 'software'. To score a point, you pass the ball from one person to another and at

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If you take technology in general, by itself there is NO intrinsic value. This is a known fact. Unless technology is applied into a business scenario and achieves the set goals, there is no $$$$ value of it. It's just a bunch of code with a nice packaging around it :) Steve Jone's blog topic "SOA Success - value over technology" has a well detailed explanation into realizing the value of SOA

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As you may know WSO2 sells subscription to customers. In other words, we put our customers at ease by selling an insurance package committing to keeping that particular product trouble-free in production. Something goes wrong we'll fix it for you! Now there are certain terminologies that we follow (for that matter any company that provides enterprise support) in explaining what are the services

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On my way to office today, I heard on the radio the 10 best and worst fake smiles. Topping the chart for the best fake smile was Julia Roberts and worst was Posh spice (Victoria Beckham). This got me thinking, who's our best fake smile ? I'll give you the honor to decided. Only problem is, all these smiles are genuine... I know cos I was there when these were taken !.....well most of 'em at

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This sounds like a dull topic doesn't it ? :) What I'd like to relate to are the users who have the potential of becoming a paid customer. The advantage for open source software over proprietary software, is the fact that you can learn everything about it starting from the source code. This inevitably gives the user the confidence in knowing the strengths/weaknesses/applicability of the

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Sigh, the final grand slam of the year..... My predictions for the 2008 US Open : - Men's single champion - Roger Federer Nadal is brilliant. He's fast, literally reaches EVERY ball that gets returned to him...... BUT doesn't have the technical diversity that Roger has. If Roger exploits this and goes for the winners instead of playing it safe, he can easily beat Nadal. Looking at Rogers

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Is this guy on drugs or what ?!? His run in the 100 metres final was just unbelievable. The last few yards he JOGGED ! Who would have thought that in a 100 metres race you can actually jog into victory. At 6' 5'' he definitely has an edge over the others because he takes longer strides. Whatever it is, this guy is going to set the game at a totally different level.....Go Bolt...THUNDER Bolt ! :

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A customer once said ".......Your community support is as good as a typical gold subscription support........" Hi there...its been a while since my last blog due to many reasons. Hopefully this wont be another sporadic blog :) So what does that quote mean. It proves a couple of points ; 1 - Shows that the community is very active and responsive 2 - Shows that viable customers come out from

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E-commerce, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Governments are some of the verticals that we have customers in. What really thrills me is the manner in which we win them.Most of our customer wins comes through a hands down win on technicality. Thats the power of open source, I think. We've taken part in several bake-offs with other competing vendors and in the end we provide

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At the beginning of an open source company, this question pops up. Whether the business strategy of the company should be focused on doing business "low touch" or "high touch".Low touch is when the company would do very little "selling" in winning a customer and would rather wait for the customer to come to the company than to go to him and play the convincing game. The high touch, is the

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I recently completed my performance evaluation and one of the objectives that came out of it was to Blog. So here I go.... Expect my thoughts on Open Source from a business stand point... (You must be thinking...oh crap ! here goes another one ! :) ).But I intend to share knowledge and experience I gather working at WSO2 on a daily basis which would give a more "practical" view point to businessy

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