Fast Growing OpenAjax Adds 13 New Members

Fast Growing OpenAjax Adds 13 New Members

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.

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