Yadong Liu, CEO of Primeton

Yadong Liu, co-founder, former Executive VP and COO of AsiaInfo(NASDAQ:ASIA), is now CEO of Primeton, which is a middleware software provider. I have to admit I haven't heard them before although I started using WebSphere in 2001 and have been working on Application Server for over five years. Yadong told me they are doing very well in the Chinese finance and telecom industry. He believes they are very good at connecting the software components using XML, which is strongly demanded by those two industries. He mentioned that Oracle Application Server doesn't have any market in China and they are likely an acquisition target from IBM. The price range would be around 20 million dollars.