Democratization of Development
Shel Israel has a good post in which he interviews Chris Shipley of Demo fame on the significance of social media and Web 2.0. She says...
22 August 2007
Of Babies, Bathwater and Enterprise Web 2.0
Kent puts his finger on the challenge for the next generation of enterprise tools and how to democratize the development of web applications. The challenge will be draining out the bathwater (development complexity) without also dumping the baby (expressive power).
16 August 2007
RAD Without Tears - How Enterprise Web 2.0 Fulfills the Promise
Why do Enterprise Web 2.0 tools have the potential to support RAD where other worthy technologies have failed?
25 July 2007
School 2.0
How Web 2.0 is Changing Enterprise School Applications
22 July 2007
Dutch Schools Use Web 2.0 to Improve Graduation Rates for 200,000 Students
One clear indicator of the state of the Enterprise Web 2.0 market is the dearth of real case studies. ActiveGrid's partner, Eljakim IT just increased the number of meaty Enterprise 2.0 success stories by 1.
18 July 2007
Dutch Attendance Tracking System Seeks To Help Improve Graduation Rates
"ActiveGrid is quite simply the fastest way to build real-world web applications."
15 July 2007
PowerBuilder for Web 2.0
"Just as PowerBuilder provided a way for the masses to create a graphical first generation environment, so this next generation of development tools will bring Web 2.0 to a broad audience."
12 July 2007
ActiveGrid Web 2.0 Application Tracks 200,000 Students
Attendance Tracking System Delivered by Eljakim IT
12 July 2007
ActiveGrid Broadens Support for Linux and Windows
Extends Support to Windows Vista and Rising Linux Vendors
11 July 2007
Ten Ways to Kick-Start a User Community
How ActiveGrid boosted postings by 10 times in five months
05 July 2007
Veteran CIO Jim Sutter Joins ActiveGrid Board
Former CIO of Xerox, Rockwell Embraces Web 2.0
28 June 2007
ActiveGrid Powers e-Directory for Puerto Rican Department of the Environment
Web 2.0 e-Government App Delivered by RedBoricua
14 June 2007
Dev Tools: ActiveGrid Developer
Why I like this stuff so much is that it enables me to quickly show to people some pages that actually work without a lot of programming effort.
03 April 2007
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.
14 February 2007
IBM Mixes Free and Open Source Infrastructure Software
Open source software providers are increasingly keen to support IBM's free databases as part of the overall convergence between the open and closed source software markets.
13 February 2007
The Road to Our Scripting Future
Lightweight languages are primed to make huge inroads into the corporate market.
02 February 2007
As IT Gains Needed Maturity, Role of Software Nears Tipping Point
Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: Analysis and insights for software strategists
29 January 2007
Successful Commercial Open Source
Alex Fletcher, Entiva Group industry analyst, blogs about — among other things — ActiveGrid
29 January 2007
ActiveGrid, PSC Group Launch Effort to Empower IBM Lotus Domino Customers To Take Advantage of Enterprise Web 2.0
Partnership Will Provide Technology, Services and Training to Create Rich, Standards-Based Applications from Multiple Lotus Domino Databases, Integrating Disparate Systems and Bringing Rich Web 2.0 Solutions to the Glass.
17 January 2007
In Business: New Wave Computing
Peter Day talks to some of the rising stars of the new revolution and finds out how the computer industry is changing yet again.
11 January 2007
ActiveGrid Appoints Chris Keene CEO
ActiveGrid, which provides an SOA platform built on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl software infrastructure stack, has appointed Christopher Keene as chairman and CEO.
10 January 2007
ActiveGrid Names Persistence Software Founder Christopher Keene as New CEO to Lead the Company Through Aggressive Growth
Keene comes to ActiveGrid to drive aggressive growth as Web 2.0 technologies continue to bring dramatic changes to enterprise computing.
10 January 2007
Integrating on the Front End with Lightweight Architecture
Today's cornucopia of Web services calls for a new approach to Web development � one that puts quick-to-understand data ahead of complicated traditional frameworks. We help you understand your options for creating Web apps that use other companies' sites as easily as calling a function.
01 January 2007
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Enterprise Applications
Network Computing ranks ActiveGrid in the top 7 companies to watch in 2007
21 December 2006
Open Source Weblog
Open Source Weblog: a year in quotes
21 December 2006
ActiveGrid: How Mashups Complement SOAs
Web 2.0 Data mashups are to SOA what NASCAR is to automobile production -- a much faster, more free-flowing, results-oriented way of combining complementary components into new applications that have an advantage over traditional months-long application development or production cycles.
21 December 2006
What Really Happened to Stuart Cohen?
Dan Lyons, senior editor at Forbes magazine, comments on Peter Yared's Microsoft has OS Patents; Linux has None
07 December 2006
Five Stories You Need to Read
Peter Yared's Microsoft has OS Patents; Linux has None makes the list
04 December 2006
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 Linux's "special" status going forward.
04 December 2006
Microsoft has OS Patents; Linux has None
Perspective: The uproar in the open-source community over Microsoft's embrace of Novell says a lot.
04 December 2006
Big Companies Embracing Software Mashups
Having someone else do the heavy lifting can take a lot of time and cost out of developing just the right set of software tools for a business, says ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared.
14 November 2006
When Companies Do the Mash
Corporations from IBM to Google to E*Trade are jumping onboard the trend of mixing and matching software from different sources
13 November 2006
Eclipse Is Still Going Strong
Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid, said Eclipse is poised to take over the development space.
07 November 2006
An Open-Source CEO on the GPLv3
Dan Lyons, senior editor at Forbes magazine, interviews ActiveGrid Founder & CEO Peter Yared
16 October 2006
Toppling Linux
Software radical Richard Stallman helped build the Linux revolution. Now he threatens to tear it apart. Dan Lyons, Senior Editor for Forbes Magazine, gets ActiveGrid Founder & CEO Peter Yared's opinion.
16 October 2006
One Man's Grid...
Between Grids and Griddles, distributed computing is a hot topic these days.
09 October 2006
ActiveGrid Recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.
David Berlind interviews Peter Yared about ActiveGrid's secret sauce
06 October 2006
Web 2.0 Company ActiveGrid Names BEA and Adobe Veteran Todd Hay New VP of Marketing
Hay will be Responsible for the ActiveGrid Studio and ActiveGrid Server Brands
28 September 2006
ActiveGrid Names Former BEA and Adobe Veteran Todd Hay New VP of Marketing
Hay will be responsible for the ActiveGrid Studio and ActiveGrid Server brands, and driving the company's product and alliances strategies.
28 September 2006
The New Barbarians
Free software. Bargain chips. The always-on Internet. Today's tech giants are in danger. But the next big boom has already begun.
18 September 2006
Really Free Software
Peter Yared ... says that for now his company and most other service vendors support only Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's Suse Linux. What would it take for him to support Ubuntu?
06 September 2006
A Grid Is a Grid Is a Grid...
ActiveGrid ... is mixing up grids with Web 2.0, producing tools that let you accelerate Web 2.0 development.
24 August 2006
Good News For Open Source Grid
In a recent announcement, ActiveGrid has stated that it is moving its tooling over to the Eclipse open source environment and will join the Eclipse Foundation as well.
18 August 2006
Web 2.0: A Security Risk?
Before jumping onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, ActiveGrid's Peter Yared suggests that you give some thought to issues involving security vulnerabilities. (MP3)
17 August 2006
ActiveGrid to Move Tools to Eclipse
LAMP proponent also will become member of open source organization
16 August 2006
Riding the Hockey Stick: Scaling Web 2.0 Software
There's been a ton of hype around Web 2.0, 'mash-ups,' and AJAX for a couple of years now, but ActiveGrid has become the first vendor to actually release the type of development and deployment tools that make these cool new web apps accessible to developers at Global 2000 companies.
16 July 2006
How Venture Capital is Trying to Get Down with Young CEOs
Money Man David Cowan Courts Hot Web Startups at a Networking Kegger
08 July 2006
Sun: Brew-It-Yourself Java?
After keeping programmers guessing for years, Sun is finally ready to open the code to its popular Web language Java. Will it be worth the wait?
05 July 2006
ActiveGrid Brings Web 2.0 Application Development and Deployment to Enterprise
Enables Best-of-Breed Web 2.0 LAMP Technology on Java Infrastructure
30 June 2006
ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 Brings New Technology to Java Servers
Designed specifically for enterprise Web 2.0 app dev, ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 hit the market this week.
27 June 2006
ActiveGrid Chooses Jython to Bring LAMP Development Closer to Java
ActiveGrid has decided to contribute in the Jython project to make ActiveGrid LAMP applications easier to deploy within companies.
26 June 2006
ActiveGrid Lights Up LAMP Stack With Some Java
"What we've done with our 2.0 product line is capture the best of LAMP and let you deploy it on your Java infrastructure," Yared told internetnews.com.
26 June 2006
LAMP on Java
We are excited that Java is joining the open source community and that we can contribute towards making Java a better home for dynamic languages.
26 June 2006
Open Source Java Will Aid Scripting, says ActiveGrid CEO
ActiveGrid has released an update to its tool set which aims to bring LAMP development closer to Java.
26 June 2006
LAMP on Java
We are excited that Java is joining the open source community and that we can contribute towards making Java a better home for dynamic languages.
26 June 2006
ActiveGrid Brings Web 2.0 Application Development and Deployment to Enterprise
ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 and ActiveGrid Server 2.0 Releases Enable Best-of-Breed Web 2.0 LAMP Technology on Java Infrastructure
26 June 2006
Why Corporate Web Sites Stink
There's a raft of new tools for improving the way sites interact with users — but many businesses have yet to learn how to use them
13 June 2006
Pick of the Crop
Giants are on the prowl in Silicon Valley. The prey: start-ups.
01 June 2006
Big Company Behavior Patterns Around Open Source
31 May 2006
Sun Mulls Its Next Java Moves
22 May 2006
Tech Startups to Watch
15 May 2006
ActiveGrid Speeds Web Application Development
15 May 2006
How I Work: Peter Yared, CEO, ActiveGrid
12 May 2006
EnterpriseDB Boosts Partner Program Roster
10 May 2006
Mash-ups on the Grid
09 May 2006
The Enterprise Grid Application Challenge
08 May 2006
Lightweight Architectures Meet the Enterprise
02 May 2006
Will Sun Open Source Java?
01 May 2006
Will Sun Open-Source Java?
30 April 2006
An Enlightening Tool
28 April 2006
Three Simple Things Sun Should Do to Win
27 April 2006
McNealy: Schwartz Ready to Take Over as CEO
24 April 2006
The Lure Of Open Source
07 April 2006
J2EE vs. LAMP vs. NET Battle Royal
05 April 2006
Peter Yared's Musings: An Open Letter to Jonathan Schwartz
31 March 2006
Sun's Open Source Strategy still MIA - An open letter to Jonathan Schwartz
29 March 2006
Former Sun Exec Calls for Firm to Open-Source Java
29 March 2006
Peter Yared's Open Letter to Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz
29 March 2006
Open Source Java Heating Up
29 March 2006
Sun Called To Open Source Java
29 March 2006
Opening Up The Wallet For Startups
23 March 2006
Sun vs. Scripting Languages
14 March 2006
Benefits of Lightweight Architecture
10 March 2006
LAMP Lights the Way in Open-Source Security
06 March 2006
Front End Integration-Lightweight Architecture
27 February 2006
Scripting and the Real-Time Enterprise - Scott Mace and Peter Yared
23 February 2006
A Pro-PHP Rant
21 February 2006
OSBC San Francisco 2006
16 February 2006
OSBC Day 1 Notes
15 February 2006
ActiveGrid as an Alternative to Java
13 February 2006
The Open Source Update
06 February 2006
ActiveGrid Delivers Service-Oriented Application Platform
01 February 2006
'LAMP' Start-up Warms to Free DB2
01 February 2006
Partners Plant Ecosystem Around Freebie DB2
31 January 2006
ActiveGrid Adds IBM DB2 Express-C to ActiveGrid's Enterprise Web 2.0 Application Platform
30 January 2006
ActiveGrid Pushes Lightweight LAMP Development
29 January 2006
AJAX Heads For The Mainstream
24 January 2006
ActiveGrid Gives LAMP a Corporate Shine
19 January 2006
Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! Point Enterprise Developers Towards "Lightweight" Architecture
18 January 2006
A Watershed for Open Source
28 December 2005
Is LAMP growing at Java's Expense?
28 December 2005
The Shape of i-Technology To Come
27 December 2005
Java? It's So Nineties
15 December 2005
Open Source Start-ups Make Their Pitch - In Public
02 November 2005
Best of the Web: Open Source Invades the Enterprise
01 November 2005
Shining a Light on LAMP
31 October 2005
How to Rapidly Build Native XML Applications
28 October 2005
Open Source 2.0: New Kids on the Block
28 October 2005
3 Questions on Web 2.0
25 October 2005
Shedding Some Light on LAMP
12 September 2005
Conventional Software vs Software as a Service
05 September 2005
Techies Turn to LAMP for Career Advancement
01 September 2005
ActiveGrid Bundles MySQL Database with LAMP Application Server
09 August 2005
LAMP Shines at Pfizer
08 August 2005
ActiveGrid Releases LAMP App Server
03 August 2005
Startups Vie to Make Linux More Attractive with Bundled Offerings
03 August 2005
ActiveGrid Shines LAMP on the Enterprise
03 August 2005
ActiveGrid Delivers "Enterprise Web 2.0" with ActiveGrid Application Builder and LAMP Application Server 1.0
03 August 2005
Former Sun CTO Sees Flaws in EJB 3, Hibernate
15 July 2005
LAMP and J2EE Competition Heating Up
29 June 2005
ActiveGrid Blazes Path for Enterprise Web 2.0
22 June 2005
ActiveGrid Forges Best-of-Breed LAMP Partnership
13 June 2005
Opening Move
20 April 2005
ActiveGrid Promotes Grids For All By Taking An Open-Source Route
11 April 2005
Open Sourcing on The Grid
11 April 2005
Grid-Based App Server
11 April 2005
ActiveGrid Releases Open Source Grid Application Server
11 April 2005
ActiveGrid's Application Server Goes Open-Source
08 April 2005
ActiveGrid Lights LAMP, Grid with Java-less App Server
08 April 2005
Enterprise Computing Vendors Duke It Out In App Server Shoot-Out 2005
06 March 2005
Smarter, Not Harder
18 February 2005
Grid Computing Newcomer Touts Open Source Approach
07 February 2005
OSDL Welcomes 2-Month Old Start-Up; Now Has 60 Members
07 February 2005
ActiveGrid Joins Open Source Development Labs
31 January 2005
ActiveGrid Joins Open Source Development Labs
31 January 2005
ActiveGrid plans to develop open source grid computing
24 November 2004
LAMP App Server, No More J2EE
22 November 2004
Start-up pitches high-end Web apps on the cheap
18 November 2004
J2EE: no longer required
18 November 2004
Grid Startup Grabs $3 Million
18 November 2004
ActiveGrid
17 November 2004
ActiveGrid Funded to Pioneer Commercial Open Source Grid Application Server
17 November 2004