Barry Klawans

Chief Technology Officer, JasperSoft Corporation

The Open Solutions Alliance
25 minutes, 11.6mb, recorded 2007-05-14
Barry Klawans

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) is a new organization made up primarily of commercial open source application software vendors aims to improve interoperability between these vendors' products. Barry Klawans of JasperSoft heads the OSA's interoperability working group. Klawans describes the OSA's goals and paths for participation, and how it embraces companies whose software doesn't strictly fit the Open Software Initiative's definition of open source. OSA's works in progress include a single sign-on and authentication system, common data models to describe customers for CRM and ERP applications, and unified monitoring. Klawans also comments on comparisons to the 1990s' "open systems" marketing push. Finally, Klawans talks about which vendors might not be allowed to join OSA, or why certain groups within such vendors might still be accepted.


Barry Klawans, chief technology officer of JasperSoft Corporation, is responsible for the technical vision and direction of JasperSoft products. He has more than 15 years of experience architecting and developing enterprise applications. Prior to joining JasperSoft, Klawans was the systems architect at Bidcom, a hosted business-to-business solution serving the commercial construction industry. Before Bidcom, Klawans was one of the original engineers at Remedy, where he spent five years and was responsible for adding Web capabilities to Remedy's core systems, as well as product-wide GUI and integration features. Prior to that, he was an early engineer at Sybase, whree he spent five years of development effort on the core server and network access layer. Klawans earned a B.A. with high honors and overall distinction in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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