IBM Donates Open-Source Technology for AJAX, Web 2.0 Development

Boy, lately it seems like everyone and there mother is hitting the AJAX train. Guess it should not be a huge surprise to see that IBM is all on board as well.

IBM announced that it will make another round of technology contributions to the open-source community to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise.

At the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 4, IBM officials said the systems giant will make additional contributions to the Eclipse Foundation’s ATF (AJAX Technology Framework) and the Mozilla Foundation.

IBM proposed the ATF project in January.

The company then led the project and donated code to Eclipse to create ATF.

Now the company says ATF project developers will work directly with IBM RAD (Rational Application Developer) 7.0 toolkit, which is slated for availability later in 2006…. Source: eWeek