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Microsoft, Google Join Ajax Alliance

By Jeff Feinman

April 15, 2007 — (Page 1 of 2)
March’s AJAXWorld Conference & Expo saw a number of new products and updates, as many players in the market competed to offer the most intriguing solutions. But two of the industry’s biggest horses rode away from the show with much of the attention.

Microsoft and Google announced their membership in the OpenAjax Alliance, a group created to foster interoperability among at least 200 different AJAX frameworks. Google was one of the 15 companies that participated in the discussion that led to the alliance in February 2005, but never signed the membership agreement because of legal issues, said a company spokesman.

“Microsoft is continuing its commitment to empower [Web] developers with technology that works cross browser and cross platform,” Microsoft group product manager Kevin Smith said in a statement. Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX offers seamless integration with other technologies, lower training costs, and faster delivery of Web 2.0 innovations, according to the alliance’s Web site.

In other show news, Backbase announced a new pricing model for its Backbase AJAX framework, which allows for the development of rich user interfaces for Web apps. Under the new pricing model, there is a flat fee of US$2,000 per developer seat for Backbase AJAX.

Backbase CEO Jouk Pleiter told SD Times that one of the main topics of the show was people’s use of JavaScript AJAX programming as a programming style. “People are starting to realize that this kind of development can be tough—you need to do it cross-browser. It’s very labor-intensive. JavaScript is a very complex programming language, and it’s not so easy for a mainstream developer to be productive with it.”

Farata Systems, a provider of Flex and Java services and components, announced www

.myflex.org, a community site the company said will be a repository for commercial Flex components and Eclipse plug-ins developed by independent vendors.

Laszlo Systems announced Laszlo Webtop and OpenLaszlo 4.0. Laszlo Webtop enables the use of a rich internet application (RIA) within a browser, with built-in windowing and docking that allow use of multiple apps within a single browser plane, and drag-and-drop sharing of information. Laszlo claims OpenLaszlo 4.0 is the first RIA platform to support the development of apps in both Flash and AJAX.

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