Peter Yared

Peter Yared is chief executive officer of ActiveGrid. Most recently, he was CTO of Sun Microsystems' Liberty Network Identity initiative. Peter was also CTO of Sun Microsystems' Application Server Division. Before its acquisition by Sun, Peter served as CTO of NetDynamics, which pioneered the then-leading J2EE application server. Earlier, he was Founder and CEO of JRad Technologies, an enterprise Java company acquired by NetDynamics.

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Googlogy, and how to avoid the Google Juggernaut

Googlogy, and how to avoid the Google Juggernaut

It used to be de rigueur in Silicon Valley to stay out of the way of Microsoft’s product road map • even areas Microsoft hinted they might pursue. Nowadays, venture folks more commonly ask, “What are you going to do about Google?”

The reality of the marketplace is that unless a startup builds a huge community, Google pays only around $50 million for a company (if you’re lucky) and then only if they want to… Continue Reading