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Monday, July 7, 2008
Thashing
Yeah, no other word to describe it really .. that was just an utter thrashing. Yes I'm of course talking about Sri Lanka winning the Cricket Asia Cup in Karachi last nite!
Sorry India (and all my Indian friends ;-)); I wish I could say better luck next time but its unfortunately not going to be the case .. now that we've just found Murali 2.0 in Ajantha Mendis (esp. when you count the two wickets he wasn't given .. including an incredible hat trick, which too wasn't given!) and also gotten Sanath some Lasik so he can see the ball again.
Look out Australia; shoving balls in your gloves won't be enough to save you in 2011!
Sorry India (and all my Indian friends ;-)); I wish I could say better luck next time but its unfortunately not going to be the case .. now that we've just found Murali 2.0 in Ajantha Mendis (esp. when you count the two wickets he wasn't given .. including an incredible hat trick, which too wasn't given!) and also gotten Sanath some Lasik so he can see the ball again.
Look out Australia; shoving balls in your gloves won't be enough to save you in 2011!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Katie Poplin joins WSO2 as Director of Marketing
Its my pleasure to announce that Katie Poplin joined us recently as Director of Marketing. Katie comes to WSO2 most recently from XAware and prior to that she spent nearly four and a half years at JBoss and then RedHat.
Being an early JBoss person she gained a tremendous amount of experience in building a marketing machine that rocketted JBoss to the top. Now she's going to help WSO2 do the same .. and beat JBoss/Redhat, of course ;-).
We've been quietly building an incredible leadership team in WSO2. Combined with our incredible engineering team and of course our superb globally distributed operational model, we're building a company that's here for the long term and can be the winner of the marathon. We're now 75+ strong and growing .. slowly and steadily.
Katie's the key driver of probably the most important component for us at this stage: marketing. Yeah, we've gone for nearly 3 years now with no marketing!
Needless to say we're thrilled to have Katie on board and are looking forward to the exhilarating ride ahead!
Being an early JBoss person she gained a tremendous amount of experience in building a marketing machine that rocketted JBoss to the top. Now she's going to help WSO2 do the same .. and beat JBoss/Redhat, of course ;-).
We've been quietly building an incredible leadership team in WSO2. Combined with our incredible engineering team and of course our superb globally distributed operational model, we're building a company that's here for the long term and can be the winner of the marathon. We're now 75+ strong and growing .. slowly and steadily.
Katie's the key driver of probably the most important component for us at this stage: marketing. Yeah, we've gone for nearly 3 years now with no marketing!
Needless to say we're thrilled to have Katie on board and are looking forward to the exhilarating ride ahead!
Org chart with Open Office?
Does anyone know of a good way to do an org chart using Open Office? Impress really sucks compared to PowerPoint :(.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Great intro to OpenID
Oshani Seneviratne, an ex-WSO2 intern, currently a Ph.D. student at MIT working with Tim Berners-Lee, has pointed to Prabath's great intro to OpenID.
Very cool talk indeed; if you want to learn what OpenID is this is a great set of slides to walk through.
Very cool talk indeed; if you want to learn what OpenID is this is a great set of slides to walk through.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Trying Ubuntu for Windows users
One of the really cool features of the latest Ubuntu release (8.04 .. Hardy Heron .. the one that came out in April) is that if you're a Windows user, you can stick the CD into a booted Windows machine and they say "install". When you do that, it ends up installing Ubuntu as a "program" under add/remove programs and it gets added to the Windows boot manager. When the system boots up you can default boot to Windows or boot into the installed Ubuntu image. If you don't like it then you can go to Windows Add/Remove programs and just "uninstall ubuntu".
That's an absolutely incredible way to try Ubuntu and give it a whirl without nearly ANY effort. No longer do you need to let grub take over and have Windows be secondary to Linux - you can be a Windows user but just have Ubuntu almost as an "application" in Windows.
There's of course the choice of using VMWare or something like that to run Ubuntu but this is a much nicer way.
You're a Windows user and haven't tried Ubuntu yet? No excuse for not trying it any more! Doesn't mean you need to switch .. just try it and see what you like and don't like about it. Who knows there may be apps there that you like to use. If you've got kids you may love the plethora of educational games that are available freely for Ubuntu. If you don't find it useful simply go to Add/Remove Programs and yank it!
That's an absolutely incredible way to try Ubuntu and give it a whirl without nearly ANY effort. No longer do you need to let grub take over and have Windows be secondary to Linux - you can be a Windows user but just have Ubuntu almost as an "application" in Windows.
There's of course the choice of using VMWare or something like that to run Ubuntu but this is a much nicer way.
You're a Windows user and haven't tried Ubuntu yet? No excuse for not trying it any more! Doesn't mean you need to switch .. just try it and see what you like and don't like about it. Who knows there may be apps there that you like to use. If you've got kids you may love the plethora of educational games that are available freely for Ubuntu. If you don't find it useful simply go to Add/Remove Programs and yank it!
Going beyond passwords ....
Jonathan has written an interesting blog about going beyond passwords. I should note that WSO2 recently joined both the OpenID Foundation and the recently formed Information Card Foundation.
We of course have (the only 100% open source?) complete offering (relying party code, issuers and everything) that supports both OpenID and Cardspace: the WSO2 Identity Solution.
We of course have (the only 100% open source?) complete offering (relying party code, issuers and everything) that supports both OpenID and Cardspace: the WSO2 Identity Solution.
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