WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad Earns Opensource.com 2014 People's Choice Award

Award was voted by the community, recognized favorite contributors from the previous year

Palo Alto, CA – April 23, 2014 – WSO2 today announced that WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad has been honored with a People’s Choice Award as part of the Opensource.com 2014 Community Awards.

Every year Opensource.com awards community members who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about how open source is changing the world. Based on voting by the community, the 2014 People’s Choice Award category recognizes favorite contributors to Opensource.com from 2013. For the full list of award winners, visit https://opensource.com/life/14/4/opensourcecom-2014-community-award-winners.

The 2014 People’s Choice Award recognized Chris for his role as an active Opensource.com contributor. The award highlighted his article, “10 ways to start contributing to open source,” which generated significant interest and conversation about how to start participating in an open source project.

The award profile also noted Chris’ involvement in hacking Apache open source since 1999; gaining committer status on Apache Axis in 2003; and ongoing commitment to encouraging DevOps, big data, platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud architecture best practices to optimize business value and agility. Most recently Chris published the article, “DevOps amplifies your open source credentials,” on Opensource.com, which can be found with his other articles at https://opensource.com/users/cobiacomm.

“As open source software continues to gain mainstream adoption, Opensource.com is serving a critical role in fostering a culture of collaboration to harness real-world experiences and tackle the business and technology challenges facing us today,” said Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism. “I am deeply honored to be recognized by the Opensource.com community for contributing to this effort.”

About Chris Haddad

Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase adoption of WSO2 open source technology, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.

About Opensource.com

Opensource.com, a RedHat community website, is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. Its goal is to further the open source way by sharing the open source movement. The Opensource.com community of readers is made up of those who believe that open participation and sharing can tackle the business, social, environmental, and technological challenges facing us today. For more information, visit https://opensource.com.

About WSO2

WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit https://wso2.com or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed..

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