Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Ajax, or 'Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,' is allowing webpages to update as quickly as desktop software, powering applications like Google Maps and attracting money from Silicon Valley investors, including for a collaboration-software company called Zimbra. The Wall Street Journal reports: 'Zimbra's chief executive, Satish Dhamaraj, says that when he started his company in December 2003, "I really thought that Ajax was just a bathroom cleaner." Now his San Mateo, Calif., business has amassed $16 million in funding from venture-capital firms including Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Benchmark Capital, the firm that famously funded eBay Inc. Peter Fenton, an Accel partner, says Ajax "has the chance to change the face of how we look at Web applications" and could boost technology spending by corporations, because Ajax is also being used to develop software for big companies, not just for consumers.'"

Comments

Thought that Ajax was just a bathroom cleaner

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Ajax is also an excuse for ad placement.

Obligatory Link

[frostman]

Web Two Point Oh

Get your AJAX-enabled startup right there!

JIT

[El_Muerte_TDS]

It has been almost a week without an AJAX story on the frontpage, it almost became something only old people in Korea use.

Tired of hearing of it

[Mancat]

Ajax has got to be the biggest buzzword of the year. Thank god nobody has figured out how to use Ajax to enable the community and synergize their collaborative efforts towards successification.

Clean-sweeps the competition

[wynterwynd]

Soon to be met by stiff competition from

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