RB: We support AJAX, and so we've done a couple of different things. One of them is obviously the Open AJAX announcement, right? ... Two weeks ago there were two announcements, we opened up two sites on Java.net. One's for JavaScript and one's for AJAX. And then the last one, there's an open source project called jMaki.

IW: How do you define Web 2.0?

RB: I like to think of it as a participatory Web. The problem with Web 2.0 is that nobody's ever been able to really pinpoint an exact definition. It's usually described as characteristics. But participatory seems to be one that works. Maybe interactive Web is a better way of putting it. .

IW: Interactive between who?

RB: Between the consumers of the Web and the people who are sort of the infrastructure. Or maybe the owners of the content.