TIBCO Software Announces Support for OpenAjax

May 11, 2006; 03:40 AM
IBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX), a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business, announced that the company has joined OpenAjax, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). As an OpenAjax member, TIBCO will work jointly with 27 other member companies (and growing) to promote AJAX's promise of universal compatibility with any computer device, application, desktop or operating system.

Working in concert with other members of the OpenAjax community, TIBCO will help define the group's direction to assure interoperability with visual tools for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Through OpenAjax, TIBCO will help to streamline interoperability of a broad spectrum of AJAX libraries so developers can leverage best-of-breed technologies without the need for extensive integration.

"TIBCO General Interface continues to pioneer AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications leveraging more than five years of AJAX expertise," said Kevin Hakman, director, TIBCO General Interface. "We're proud to join the Open AJAX initiative, and to share our expertise to improve Eclipse ATF and AJAX interoperability overall."

TIBCO's AJAX offering, TIBCO General Interface(TM) was evaluated recently by independent market research firm IDC in an Insight report entitled, "TIBCO General Interface: A Robust RIA Platform," published in April 2006. In the report, Steve McClure, program vice president, Software Research Group writes, "The Web platform has seen a proliferation of libraries and frameworks for interactivity, Ajax, and rich Internet applications in the past year. Many are still maturing. TIBCO's General Interface product is unusual -- if not unique -- among HTML-based frameworks for its maturity and its comprehensive design and development toolkit."(1)

TIBCO General Interface is one of the most mature, proven AJAX solutions for rapidly building and easily deploying RIAs on the market today. In January, IDG's InfoWorld recognized TIBCO General Interface 3.1 with a "2006 Technology of the Year" award for "Best AJAX Toolkit." The product offers a significantly reduced development time and cost through use of familiar APIs, visual authoring tools, step-through debugging and extensible, reusable components. As testimony to the product's maturity, the visual tools are themselves a Web-based application powered by TIBCO General Interface -- a full AJAX IDE running as an AJAX application.

Launched in February 2006, OpenAjax is a collaboration among leading technology companies focused on expanding the adoption of AJAX development techniques. The group seeks to accomplish this by evolving available tools and runtimes in order to significantly reduce the development costs and skills required for developers to incorporate AJAX into their Web-based applications.

About TIBCO General Interface

TIBCO General Interface is made up of two components, TIBCO General Interface(TM) Framework and TIBCO General Interface(TM) Builder, which provide breakthrough development tools. First brought to market in 2001, the product has been used to build Web applications that have the rich features of desktop installed software, but the lower cost profile of web deployments. TIBCO General Interface has powered applications at Fortune 1000 companies and within the U.S. government for over four years. For more information, go to www.tibco.com/mk/gi.

About TIBCO

TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. Real-time business is about helping companies become more cost-effective, more agile and more efficient. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now(R), to over 2,500 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. For more information on TIBCO's proven enterprise backbone, business integration, business process management, and business optimization solutions, TIBCO can be reached at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at www.tibco.com. TIBCO is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

NOTE: TIBCO, the TIBCO logo, The Power of Now, TIBCO General Interface, and TIBCO Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

(1) Source: IDC. #201088, "TIBCO General Interface: A Robust RIA Platform," April 2006.