[Sigia-l] Jesse James Garrett in today's Wall Street Journal

[Richard Hill]

Page B1, heading _PORTALS_; Headline: "Google Pioneers Use of Old Microsoft
Tools in New Web Programs."

	"Ajax is a recently coined name for a dense mouthful of software
technologies that are built into web browsers..."
	"The term Ajax was coined last month by Jesse James Garrett of the
San Francisco Web consulting firm Adaptive Path.  He came up with the
pseudo- acronym in the shower while searching for a shorthand way to explain
to clients how the recent offerings by Google can perform so robustly.
	"Google, notes Mr. Garrett, isn't the first to use Ajax..."

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