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Hi WSO2-ers. You might not recognize me, but I've been with WSO2 since May, working behind the scenes on marketing and community development. For the first 3 years that WSO2 has been around, engineers have been focused almost entirely on building great products for Apache and WSO2. Now that we have that solid foundation, it's time to offer our products to the world to help people build really cool SOA applications.

One of the things we've been working on is a simple, clear way to describe all our product offerings. To better tell this story, we launched our new company website last month. Simply put, we provide a lightweight framework, with everything you need to create, connect, compose and govern services for SOA's. I'd like to ask you, our community, to check out the site and let us know what you think. Since you already know and use our products, we think that you'll be the better judge as to whether the new site explains what we offer.

One of the biggest issues companies have had with SOA is what I call bootstrapping: until there are a reasonable number of services in the network, then the value of the SOA is minimal. When I think back to the first time I had an email address, back in 1988, it was effectively useless to me because none of my friends had email. While there was no other option for me back then, other than waiting for my friends to get their own email, you don't have to sit back and wait for SOAs to be usable. We can speed up the time it takes to create useful services - making it simpler to become part of the network.