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Big news today at AjaxWorld East is that Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax Alliance.  This is really big news, and also quite unusual to have the big players like Microsoft, IBM (why is there logo at the top of the press release?), Sun, Adobe and BEA all at the same party:-)  I’m looking forward to the meetings Thursday.

“Microsoft is joining the OpenAJAX Alliance to collaborate with other
industry leaders to help evolve AJAX-style development by ensuring a high
degree of interoperability,” said Keith Smith, group product manager of the
Core Web Platform & Tools to UX Web/Client Platform & Tools team at
Microsoft Corp.

Jon Ferraiolo announced this today in his talk at AjaxWorld, people in the crowd were stoked and Brad Abrams said that MSFT was excited to be joining the OAA.

Also, we’re going to be seeing the interoperability work, with the OpenAjax Hub, between some of the different toolkit vendors.  The companies that have received “Interoperability Certificates” are: Apache XAP, Dojo
Foundation, ICEsoft, ILOG, Isomorphic, IT Mill, Lightstreamer, Open Link,
Open Spot, Nexaweb, Software AG and TIBCO.  I’m very curious to see how useful and efficient this is.  We don’t want OpenAjax to seem like we’re promoting 1Mb of JS on web page just to have interop!

Nitobi hasn’t had a chance since we’ve just release CompleteUI V1, but we’re be tackling interop in the coming months.

Redmonk has also joined recently, which I think will be a big help to the group in terms of no-non-sense-practical-thinking to get wider adoption of OAA initiatives.  yuh!

Big shout out to Jon Ferraiolo and David Boloker on driving this forward!

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