WSO2 wins Data Services Product of the Year

WSO2 Web Services Application Server has won the SearchSOA SOA Products of the Year award for the Data Services/Integration area.
According to one judge,

"It's nice to see open source software take on the growing data access problem. This is a tool that's likely to make both architects and developers happy. It's service-oriented and it addresses a common tactical problem that teams face in most every project."

This is a great reflection on the great work the team has done - especially Sumedha who has driven this - but its an even greater reflection on the whole approach that we have taken with our SOA platform. The Data Services is simply a plugin module into the overall WSAS framework. That meant that the Data Services automatically got:

• REST support
• Full WS-* support including Security and SecureConversation
• TryIt instant test tool
• Full WSDL and WSDL2 support
• Cluster support
• Logging, Monitoring and JMX enablement
  

We have had great feedback from users - people consistently say things like: "I had my first Data Service up and running in 10 minutes".

Congratulations to the team.

PS If you look at the list of categories, WSO2 plays in at least 6 out of the 9 areas. Of course I'm hoping to win a lot more in next years competition. More importantly, we really are the only Open Source vendor to have a true SOA platform story where customers can build as much of the SOA as they need using Apache licensed software.