"IBM led the parade Wednesday when it was announced that a consortium of technology vendors had formed a new initiative based on asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax).
"The initial supporting members of the initiative--called Open Ajax--include BEA Systems Inc., Eclipse Foundation, IBM, Mozilla Corp., Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Yahoo and Zend Technologies Ltd. Each member has pledged to promote Ajax using a stable of their own open source tools and projects..."