OpenAjax Alliance
industry group devoted to Ajax
The OpenAjax Alliance is an industry group dedicated to the set of technologies and web programming techniques known as Ajax.
History and Termination of Formal Operations
In late 2005, under the leadership of IBM, a number of companies came together to discuss how to ensure that Ajax reaches its full potential as the industry standard application platform based on open technologies. These initial discussions led to the announcement of the "OpenAjax Initiative" on Feb. 1, 2006, with participation from 15 original companies, including BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend, and Zimbra.
Between February 1 and May 15, 2006, an additional 15 organizations joined "OpenAjax", and the group of 30 companies held a two-day kickoff meeting in San Francisco to establish their plans. During the meeting, the decision was made to form the OpenAjax Alliance, define its mission, agree on an interim organizational process, and establish its activities.
The participating companies then developed a governance model through a Members Agreement and began executing their marketing, educational and technical initiatives. The alliance's website and white paper were launched in September 2006. In October 2006, the alliance elected its first Steering Committee. By December 2006, the alliance had released its first technical product, the OpenAjax Hub, with a draft specification and reference open-source implementation.
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