Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax Alliance, which already has an impressive list of supporters including major industry vendors such as Google, IBM, Novell, Oracle, Yahoo, Red Hat and leading AJAX specialists like JackBe.
The significance of the announcement is that AJAX is now the very much established as the leading technology for rich, Web-based clients.
An interesting part of the discussion of Microsoft joining the OpenAjax Alliance is that Microsoft is claiming that they more or less invented AJAX!
Some might say it is only fitting that Microsoft should join the group that is helping to advance AJAX, as much of the technology in AJAX-style development originated at Microsoft, the company claims.
Indeed, Adam Bosworth, now a vice president at Google but formerly a key software architect at Microsoft, spoke at a Google event in January and described the process of creating AJAX at Microsoft 10 years ago.
"Back in '96-'97, me and a group of people, many of whom are here at Google, helped build stuff that these days is called AJAX," Bosworth said. "We sat down and took a hard look at what was going to happen with the Internet, and we concluded, in the face of unyielding opposition and animosity from virtually every senior person at Microsoft, that the thick client was on its way out and it was going to be replaced by browser-based apps.
"Saying this at Microsoft back in '96 was roughly equivalent to throwing matches around in an oil refinery," he said. "But we concluded we should go and build this thing. And we put all this stuff together so people could build thin-client applications."
PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software
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