David Boloker, IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, sees the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm (and now) to an AJAX paradigm." - and it's not just talk. IBM and others are putting their muscle behind an open source initiative (from IBM Leads "Open AJAX" Coalition of Web 2.0 Vendors, by Roger Strukhoff, Sys-Con Australia, Feb. 1, 2006) The key components of AJAX, JavaScript and XML, aren't new, but industry buzz has grown in recent months due with the technology industry recovery and the wider acceptance of open-source approaches. Strukhoff posits that the Open AJAX announcement is "the most significant story in the open-source technology world since the creation of Linux."

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