To Whom It May Concern:
I am Prakash Ramamurthy, vice president of products and technology at Oblix,
Inc. I’m among those under consideration for a position on the board, and
wanted to briefly share with you why I am confident that my contributions as a
board member will drive the advancement of OASIS-backed standards.
Not only is Oblix completely dedicated to interoperability between
systems, our customers have adopted the technology in real life situations. In
August, for example, Oblix announced the first fully integrated SAML deployment
between Southwest Airlines and Boeing. Deployments like this one mark a healthy
trend for standards to succeed.
Real world end-user implementations play a necessary and critical role
in standards deliberation. As an instrumental driver of this program at Oblix,
I will as an OASIS board member apply the same vision and execution towards
securing active customer participation in the advancement of standards.
I have the full support of management here at Oblix, as we have both
endorsed and invested in open standards such as SPML and SAML since our
inception. In fact, we firmly believe in the open systems model as the only
cost-effective way to connect people, resources and systems.
To reiterate my initial statement, I fully believe OASIS will continue
its standards leadership, and encourage you to strongly consider my ability to
help OASIS take these important next steps.
Prakash Ramamurthy
Vice President of Products and Technology
Oblix