Tuesday, March 11, 2008

XAware to Speak at Upcoming Open Source Conferences

XAware’s Founder and Chief Scientist to Present at EclipseCon 2008, InfoWorld’s Open Source Business Conference and MySQL Conference & Expo 2008

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist of XAware, Inc., will be a featured speaker at three upcoming open source conferences. Vandersluis will present at EclipseCon 2008 on March 19, InfoWorld’s Open Source Business Conference on March 26 and the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 on April 15.

At EclipseCon 2008, Vandersluis will explain how to create a best practice SOA architecture that includes a data aggregation/abstraction layer.

Presentation: “Building Data Services in Eclipse: Introducing the XAware Project”

Who: Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, XAware, Inc.

When: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 1:30 p.m. PT

Where: EclipseCon 2008, Grand Ballroom C, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

At the OSBC, Vandersluis will team up with John Woolbright, senior vice president and CTO, Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV), to present a case study on how the $34-billion financial services company successfully used open source technologies to create a reusable customer profile service that has saved the company a million dollars.

Presentation: “CIO Best Practices: Using Open Source to Service Enable Data”

Who: Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, XAware, Inc.

John Woolbright, senior vice president and CTO, Synovus Financial Corp.

When: Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 2 p.m. PT

Where: InfoWorld’s Open Source Business Conference, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

At the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, Vandersluis will discuss the valuable things that developers can accomplish when comprehensive XML functionality is added to MySQL.

Presentation: “Crazy Data Formats and Multiple Data Sources? Taming Your Messy Mashups”

Who: Kirstan Vandersluis, founder and chief scientist, XAware, Inc.

When: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 2 p.m. PT

Where: MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, Ballroom G, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

About Kirstan Vandersluis

Vandersluis is the founder and chief scientist of XAware, Inc. He has been instrumental in developing and patenting XAware’s product suite and launching the XAware open source project (www.xaware.org). Vandersluis is a frequent speaker at software industry events. He is also the author of “XML-Based Integration with XAware,” published in 2004 by Maximum Press. Vandersluis holds a BS in Computer Science from Michigan and an MS in Computer Science from University of Colorado.

About XAware, Inc.

XAware is the first company to provide a comprehensive open source data integration solution for creating composite data services. XAware provides users with the ability to rapidly access and integrate data with applications and business processes. Furthermore, XAware makes it possible to transform data, regardless of the source, into reusable components for SOA and Web 2.0 applications. XAware features an Eclipse-based development environment and runtime engine based on the Spring framework that can be implemented to take advantage of almost any IT infrastructure. Companies worldwide, including AXA (NYSE: AXA), S1 (NASDAQ: SONE) and Synovus (NYSE: SNV) rely on XAware for their composite data services needs. For community information please visit: www.xaware.org and for corporate information on XAware, please visit: www.xaware.com.

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