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title: Open Source Data Services Are Increasingly Important
date: 2008-08-12T16:47:19Z
modified: 2008-08-12T16:47:19Z
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  - OSS
  - WS02
timestamp: 2008-08-12T16:47:19Z
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[![To the heart of Colombo](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/940927696_a3fb9c614a.jpg?v=0)

](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hashir/940927696/)I recently participated in a [podcast](http://interarbor.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=367665) about open source data services infrastructure, sponsored by RedMonk client WS02 (which I have written about previously [here](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/03/31/bridging-ws-and-rest-get-up-on-your-soap-pox-the-case-for-dummy-soap-envelopes/) and [here](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/10/16/make-stars-of-your-developers-ws02-does/)).

The show was moderated by [Dana Gardner](http://briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com/) of [Interarbor Solutions](http://www.interarbor-solutions.com/). He’s a good chap. Other participants are WSO2’s CTO [Paul Fremantle](http://pzf.fremantle.org/) and Brad Svee, the IT manager of development at travel management company Concur Technologies.

[WS02](http://wso2.com/) is a very cool outfit. They are writing a lot of open source code in double quick time, and I don’t know of many other development shops in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Good people.

amazing picture courtesy of [hashmil](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hashir/) and CreativeCommons Attribution 2.0 license.