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Open AJAX Is Loosed Upon the World
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04/18/2006, By Roger Strukhoff
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IBM's announcement last month of the Open AJAX initiative brought to the fore a few key points. The two most obvious are that IBM remains an 800-pound gorilla that the other primates will follow through the business jungle, and that AJAX has emerged as an ironically disruptive technology.
Ironic in that AJAX comprises not only a seemingly modest collection of modest elements - XML and JavaScript - but that these elements are hardly new, work in a loosely coupled fashion, yet represent the leading edge of what's going on with application development in the world today.
Open AJAX also brought in the heavyweights Oracle, Novell, Red Hat, Google and Yahoo, in addition to solid middleweight Borland and major featured performers Zend, Zimbra, Laszlo, Mozilla, and the Eclipse Foundation. Prominent in their absence were Sun, HP, and Tibco, although spokespeople from both Sun and Tibco have told me that they haven't ruled out future participation in this coalition.
Like the applications upon which it is focused, Open AJAX is loosely coupled, with no formal organization or management structure. It represents, in the word of one member executive who spoke to us, "IBM putting its foot down and the rest of us destined to follow its footsteps."
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