Patrick Leonard and the Open CSA Steering Committee vote

Hello,

 

I am 
writing to you today as voting begins for the Open CSA Steering Committee to ask 
for your vote for my colleague Patrick Leonard, who 
is the VP of Product Development for Rogue Wave Software and brings a great deal 
of experience to this position.

 

As you 
might be aware, I have been contributing on behalf of Rogue Wave Software to the 
Service Data Object specifications for the past year as part of OSOA. 
 Rogue Wave has been particularly keen on promoting the multi-language 
aspects of the SCA/SDO specifications, with strong emphasis on the C++ and Java specifications.  We believe 
that the multi-language nature of the specifications is the key to widespread 
acceptance and adoption in the same way that SOAP and WSDL are language neutral 
and universally accepted. 

 

Under Patrick's 
leadership, Rogue Wave has made a significant commitment SDO and SCA. Rogue Wave has 
already:

 

  
shipped 
  products based on the 
  SDO and SCA specifications, particularly the C++ specifications, and is in a 
  position to offer real customer feedback 
  
  
    
HydraSCA  http://www.roguewave.com/hydra/hydrasca.cfm 
    
    
HydraSDO http://www.roguewave.com/hydrasdo/hydrasdo.cfm 

 

  
increased our membership level in 
  OASIS from Contributor to Sponsor 

 

  
joined the Java Community Process, 
  where I will participate in the SDO expert group, with a particular focus on 
  ensuring that the C++ SDO specification in OASIS stay synchronized with the 
  Java specifications in the JCP. 

 

  
contributed to Apache Tuscany, 
  having donated much of the CTS to ensure 
  cross vendor product compatibility 

 

  
named its new products HydraSCA 
  and HydraSDO to demonstrate its commitment to the specifications, show how 
  central they are to Rogue Wave’s products and product plans, and to evangelize 
  the SCA/SDO specifications in the general marketplace 

 

 

Rogue Wave 
has already demonstrated its strong enthusiasm for SDO and SCA, and following 
the election of Patrick Leonard to the Steering Committee, Rogue Wave intends to 
significantly increase the commitment of the Rogue Wave:

 

  
continuing to contribute to SDO 
  via both OASIS and the JCP 

 

  
continuing to contribute to 
  the C++ Client & Implementation specification 

 

  
leading the effort toward .NET 
  / C# Client & Implementation specification 

 

  
contributing to the SCA Assembly 
  Model specification 
  

 

  
increasing Rogue Wave’s 
  contribution to Apache Tuscany 

 

At a 
personal level, I can personally recommend without hesitation Patrick Leonard, 
who brings a high level of enthusiasm, integrity, and hard work in all his 
endeavors. 

 

Patrick is 
a pleasure to work with and will be a valuable addition to the Open CSA Steering 
Committee as it tries to make SCA and SDO universally accepted industry 
standards for Service Oriented Architectures.

 

So I hope 
you’ll consider Patrick Leonard very high in your voting 
preferences.

 

Thank you 
for your time.

 

 

Andy 
Grove

HydraSDO 
Product Architect

 

Rogue Wave 
Software

2 Edward 
Court
Wellington 
Road
Wokingham, Berks
RG40 2AN, 
United 
Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)118 
9360710