Submitted on January 2, 2008 - 21:57.
For part 2 of this interview, see here.
Paul Fremantle co-founded WSO2 after 9 years at IBM where he created the Web Services Gateway, and led the team that developed and shipped it as part of WebSphere Application Server. Paul also co-created the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), was co-lead of JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J, and co-chaired the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee.
Interview: http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid26_gci1286466,00.html