You might have to go through 20 candidates to find a good one, Boloker said.

Other initial members in OpenAjax included BEA Systems, Borland Software, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo!, Zend, and Zimbra. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have been invited to participate but have yet to become part of the organization, Boloker said.

OpenAjax participants will hold a summit meeting next week in San Francisco to determine specific deliverables.

OpenAjax was announced in February (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/01/74989_HNvendorspromoteajax_1.html). Participants share the goal of promoting AJAX's promise of being universally compatible with any computer device, application, desktop, or operating system. The group also is pushing AJAX as being easily incorporated into new and existing software programs and seeks its usage in mobile applications also.