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Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance
OpenAjax founder talks about the security issues around it, and the possibilities of other vendors such as Microsoft and Apple joining the OpenAjax alliance
Paul Krill (InfoWorld) 09/10/2006 13:13:36

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What do you think the impact is of Microsoft not participating? You have this massive PC software company, and they're not participating. Do you think it's detrimental for them to not participate, or does it not make a difference?

Well it makes a difference because I'd actually like to have them at the table. They have some very, very skilled developers, and they've thought about the area a lot, just as Tibco has and IBM has and JackBe has and others. It would be actually great if we actually can get everyone to the table, and I'm really hoping that we can do it.

Do you think you will?

Optimistic.

But they have not made any commitments to joining at this point?

None. They're thinking about it at this point.

Are there any other major companies on the sidelines? I can't think of any right now.

There's plenty of people that are in discussions with us, and those people in discussions with us are folks like Apple. Let's see, who else would be in it? We're looking at Cisco as another. Cisco [is not] core to the Web piece of this. The other companies are mostly in Asia.

What about the issues of security around AJAX? Apparently there are a lot of them. What are you doing about that?

Security around AJAX is actually security around the Web. So there's many sets of issues here, and one of the things which we're actually going to cover inside of OpenAjax is a whole discussion on security, at the meeting at the end of the week. And one of the topics is not only from a Web standpoint of cross-app scripting, which has been a problem in the Web for many, many years, when you have cross-application scripting between servers.

But this whole concept of when you're doing mashups, if you're doing mashups all within your establishment or customer shop or you have trusted parties, mashups are secure. It's when you do unsecure mashups between, say, myself and someone I don't really know; that other person's JavaScript could be misformed, or [it could] try to take control of my machine. And this is really where a question of needing to do some technology work between ourselves, the companies, as well as maybe even in the W3C to look at [the question], How do I basically bring an access list to give someone approval to use the mashup or not to use the mashup?

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