Daniel Brum Joins WSO2 as Director of Technical Sales.Brum Brings Proven Success Developing, Delivering and Supporting Professional Open Source Software COLOMBO, Sri Lanka & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- WSO WSO World Service Office (Narcotics Anonymous) WSO Williams Students Online WSO Weather Service Office WSO Web Site Optimization WSO Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra WSO World Safety Organization WSO Warrior Special Offer 2, the open source SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. company, announced today that Daniel Brum has joined WSO2 as director of technical sales. Most recently serving as technical director at MuleSource, Brum brings several years of proven success in developing, delivering and supporting professional open source software. Brum will be based in Toronto, Canada. Brum is part of WSO2's expanded management team, which is also being announced today. (For more information, see press release, "WSO2 Expands Management Team," dated April 18, 2008.) Brum brings to WSO2 extensive open source technology experience -- both as a vendor and an enterprise customer. At MuleSource, he was a lead technical evangelist and technologist working with customers and the engineering teams. Before joining MuleSource, Brum worked with the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. ) team as a core developer and architect, and he was the lead behind the corporate Rosetta project, which was donated to JBoss and became the seed for the JBoss ESB. Brum also worked with the pre-sales technical teams at JBoss, helping to evangelize e·van·gel·ize v. e·van·gel·ized, e·van·gel·iz·ing, e·van·gel·iz·es v.tr. 1. To preach the gospel to. 2. To convert to Christianity. v.intr. To preach the gospel. the company's professional open source model and products. Prior to JBoss, Brum was the head of enterprise applications and architecture with insurance provider Aviva Canada where he introduced open source tools such as Linux, JBoss, and PostGreSQL to the internal development team. "WSO2 is at the forefront in delivering a comprehensive platform to support enterprises' heterogeneous service-oriented architectures, which are best served by a flexible, open source approach," said Brum. "I am excited to join the industry's leading open source SOA experts at WSO2 in helping companies to realize the strategic benefits of open source SOA implementations -- both internally and across their business networks." At WSO2, Brum will focus on named accounts in the company's priority vertical markets and build the company's business in the Americas. "From the start, our mission has been to provide innovative and powerful open source software that addresses the real-world SOA demands of enterprise developers and architects," said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of WSO2. "We are thrilled to have Daniel onboard and look forward to tapping his depth of vendor-side and corporate experience in open source middleware to further extend the success of our customers' SOA implementations." Prior to his roles at MuleSource, JBoss and Aviva Canada, Brum was the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of a startup in the late '90s, creating services for the intellectual property information technology space. He also worked as a consultant and software architect with companies such as Chubb & Son Insurance, Thomas Cook Americas, Sunlife Financial, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Argentina, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Canada Footprint Division. About WSO2 WSO2 is the open source SOA company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation (open source, body) Apache Software Foundation - (ASF) An umbrella consortium that manages the development of the Apache web server, dozens of XML- and Java-based projects (under the name Jakarta), the Ant build tool, the Geronimo J2EE server, the SpamAssassin anti-SPAM tool, and Web services community. The company is delivering a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA. The company's cornerstone products are the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (based on Apache Axis2) and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (based on Apache Synapse synapse (sĭn`ăps), junction between various signal-transmitter cells, either between two neurons or between a neuron and a muscle or gland. A nerve impulse reaches the synapse through the axon, or transmitting end, of a nerve cell, or neuron. ), which are built on the WSO2 Web Services Framework. The company is backed by Intel Capital and maintains operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. |
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