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Palo Alto, CA-based WSO2 has Promoted Paul Fremantle as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
WSO2`s commercial offerings including 24x7x365 production support, licensed patches and service packs, and assistance through training, support, and consulting services. We strive for a support experience that customers value and renew. WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications. Fully cloud-native, the WSO2 middleware platform is also the only open source platform-as-a-service for private and public clouds available today. With WSO2, seamless migration and integration between servers, private clouds, and public clouds is now a reality.
About the Person
Paul Fremantle, CTO, co-founded WSO2 in 2005 in order to reinvent the way enterprise middleware is developed, sold, delivered and supported through an open source model. In his current role as CTO, Paul spearheads WSO2’s overall product strategy. Previously, he served as WSO2 vice president of technical sales where he led the development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. In 2008, Paul was recognized as by InfoWorld as a Top 25 CTO. Prior to WSO2, Paul was a senior technical staff member at IBM for nine years. There, Paul created the Web Services Gateway and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of the WebSphere Application Server. He also was on the team that put the Service Integration Bus technology into WebSphere Application Server 6. Additionally, Paul was the key WebSphere technical sales lead for Europe, working closely with development to manage beta programs, develop training materials, and enable first-of-a-kind J2EE projects. Paul has played a central role in emerging open standards for more than a decade. While at IBM, he co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) with Sanjiva Weerawarana while also co-leading JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J. Paul is currently co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee, which is charged with creating the industry standard for reliable message exchange over SOAP. Paul also has played a pioneering role open source development. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and vice president of the Synapse project, leading the launch of Apache’s ESB. Paul’s original contributions to open source go back to the original Apache SOAP project, where Paul donated code to enable access to Enterprise JavaBeans. He has also led IBM’s involvement in the Axis C/C++ project. Paul has published many articles, both on the Web and in traditional forms, and has spoken at numerous workshops and industry conferences, including ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture, and others. Paul also has published two books: Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition, and The XML Files. Prior to his role as an IBM senior technical staff member, Paul worked in IBM Global Services for three years, providing technical and business consultancy around the Internet and e-business. Before joining IBM, he was a consultant at ZS Associates, providing analytical sales forecasting consultancy to the pharmaceutical market. Paul has an MA in mathematics and philosophy and an MSc in computation, both from Oxford University
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