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Microsoft: Steward of Linux, protector of competition: Peter Yared, CEO at ActiveGrid, has penned a CNET commentary on the Microsoft-Novell Linux agreements that seems to call into question Linuxs "special" status going forward. The notion that open source and GPL licensing differentiates Linux and other open source products from commercial operating systems is now moot, Yared seems...; Tags: Peter Yared, GPL, .NET, Patents, Intellectual Property, Red Hat, Software Development, Windows, Microsoft, Linux, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Open Source; Blog posts 2006-12-04
ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.: For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), Ive seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards namely XML to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide...; Tags: XML, ActiveGrid, Peter Yared; Blog posts 2006-10-06
ActiveGrid pushes lightweight LAMP development: Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid, has said that Java is a dinosaur. In our podcast interview, Yared, who spent five years at Sun working with Java, explains why he believes that the alternative--lightweight development based on open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP)--is preferable to Java for many kinds...; Tags: Java, Peter Yared; Blog posts 2006-01-29

The bottom line on Novell-Microsoft may be RedHat stock surge: The Novell-Microsoft deal, announced November 2, was designed to boost Novells place in the Linux universe against that of competitors, notably RedHat. Those analysts, like Peter Yared, who spun the deal as a good thing were banking on the idea it would make Novell a more significant competitor in the...; Tags: General, Linux, Strategy, resellers, Microsoft, management, marketing, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc.; Blog posts 2007-02-05
Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 software: With all the talk last week about MySpace becoming the #1 most visited site on the Web, there's also been a lot of talk about how Web 2.0 sites like MySpace handle their sharp growth rates. Because Web 2.0 sites explicitly leverage network effects, when they hit their...; Tags: Web, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-07-16

Answering Sun's open source Java question is easy, and it's one word: Kudos to Peter Yared at ActiveGrid for banging on Sun Microsystems on open sourcing Java, or at least the JVM. And thanks to Dan Farber for amplifying the call. However, I can answer the question for Sun with a single word. Why not open source Java? The answer is: IBM.Sun...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, open source, open-source Java; Blog posts 2006-03-29
Open source Java heating up: Peter Yared, formerly of Sun and now CEO of ActiveGrid, posted an open letter to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz regarding open sourcing Java on his blog. Here's the text:Dear Jonathan,Long time no see! The same way you enjoy writing open letters to IBM and others in your blog...; Tags: Java, open source; Blog posts 2006-03-29
Lightweight architecture: Enterprises running three tiers of servers now have another option, using inexpensive commodity machines. Peter Yared of ActiveGrid shows how "lightweight architecture" reduces costs and increases scalability.; Tags: Architecture, ActiveGrid, Scalability, Server; Whiteboards 2006-03-10