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Fast Growing OpenAjax Adds 13 New Members
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05/11/2006, By Ajax Impact News
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OpenAjax, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax, today announced 13 new members - expanding its participation to 28 companies. The OpenAjax members intend to promote Ajax's promise of universal compatibility with any computer device, application, desktop or operating system, and easy incorporation into new and existing software programs as well as foster Ajax's growth.
Created February 2006, OpenAjax is a collaboration among leading technology and software businesses to expand Ajax adoption and evolve tools and runtimes that will significantly reduce the development costs and skills required to incorporate Ajax Technology into Web Applications. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) is a fast-growing technology that businesses are incorporating into their external and internal Web sites to simplify the browsing experience, and make it easier for users to shop, work, plan, correspond and navigate online.
As a leading open software technology, Ajax makes it unnecessary to manually refresh a browser to send or receive information over the Web. Therefore, it can reduce the steps needed to complete a transaction over the Web or create a competitive edge for enterprise companies and Web designers. Additionally, Ajax enables Web Clients to bind to back-end servers using XML as well as the Ajax clients can call Web based Services creating mashups.
New OpenAjax members announced today include, Adobe, Backbase, Fair Isaac, ICEsoft, Innoopract, Intel, JackBe, Opera, SAP, Scalix, Software AG, Tibco and XML11. These new members join the initial members, including BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo!, Zend and Zimbra.
The OpenAjax members plan to meet in mid-May 2006 at a Summit to discuss the present usage of Ajax, its growth into new markets and then create a business and technical roadmap by which the OpenAjax companies can work toward more universal Ajax support across the desktop and mobile devices.
New Member Quotes:
Adobe
"Ajax has re-ignited the imagination and potential of applications on the web. It's critical that we come together as an industry and define tools and frameworks that integrate seamlessly with each other, and how developers work," said Todd Hay, director of platform marketing, Adobe. "Adobe is firmly committed to supporting developers in delivering these rich Internet applications, and has already released a number of open technologies for integrating Flash, Flex and Ajax. As part of OpenAjax, Adobe furthers its commitment to Ajax, making it easier to use for building rich Internet applications."
Backbase
"As the leading provider of Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications software and solutions, Backbase's strategy for developer tooling has always been to utilize open standards and extend developers' preferred IDEs," says Mark Schiefelbein, VP of Product Development for Backbase. "We are pleased to be working together with other industry leaders in supporting the OpenAjax initiative, providing developers with a standardized tools palette that will help advance and speed the adoption of Ajax."
Fair Isaac
"Fair Isaac Corporation sees the adoption AJAX technologies by the Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system as a way to build smart, interactive applications. The Blaze Advisor system can be used across a variety of customer-facing applications where accuracy of data input is critical and where data collection and validation rules are numerous, highly changeable or complex. SmartForms for Blaze Advisor validates entry in required input fields, taps the processing power of AJAX to speed response, and ensures data integrity and compliance." James Taylor, marketing vice president, Enterprise Decision Management Technologies
ICEsoft
"ICEsoft views standards as critical for our customers success as well as a foundation for innovation," said Chris Erickson, C
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