IBM has created the Open AJAX project, designed to make AJAX and its technologies (JavaScript, XML) available on all hardware and platforms. Joining this group will be Google and Yahoo, among others.

In addition to Big Blue, other initial supporting members of Open Ajax include Google, Yahoo, BEA, Borland, the Eclipse Foundation, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat.

Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies at IBM, said it plans to contribute software to the Eclipse Foundation and Mozilla Corporation that will allow one to develop and debug an AJAX application.