1. Causing trouble!
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
WSO2
September 13, 2011

2. History
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
4. Technology
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
6. Business
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
8. Culture
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
10. People
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
12. Sri Lanka
13. Awards & recognition!
14. Customers!
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 todays keynote speaker
Dr. C Mohan, IBM Fellow