Davanum (Dims) Srinivas was one of three founders of WSO2 and was the Director of Customer Engagements. He played a pivotal role in getting many Apache and WSO2 projects off the ground. His expertise in Apache Projects has been invaluable to the ramping up of WSO2.
We wish Dims all the very best [...]

Version 2.1 of the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) now supports data services for RDBMS, MS-Excel(97-2003),CSV and JNDI data sources. Data stored in these can easily be exposed via a Web service API.
Released last week this version also comes with the WSAS IDE, which integrates the Eclipse IDE, enabling JAVA2WSDL [...]

The WSO2 Identity Solution team released version 1.0-beta recently which now includes an identity provider.
This identity provider supports connecting to a JDBC or an LDAP user store to issue information cards to the users in those user stores and to enable those users to log into web applications using the cards they acquired. [...]