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Whassup With Ajax13?

Anyone got a clue what’s happening with Ajax13, the “home” of Ajax-Windows, AjaxWrite and other Ajax-based Office productivity tools?

When I visit AjaxWrite anything I trie generates an error of some sort. I had a login at one point but it no longer works. Trying to sign up for a new one produces the error ” /en/ajaxwrite/registration.jsp was not found on this server.” If I click the big blue Launch Now button without being logged in, I get an editing window alright but none of the functions for saving the document or opening existing ones works. No error, just no response.

The site’s blog shows absolute silence from Oct. 4, 2007, until March 3, when there’s a bizarrely off-topic post about browser-based file synching (admittedly an interesting topic, but what it has to do with AjaxWrite or any of the other Ajax13 tools is opaque). Yet the forums have some recent activity, though no official responses.

Feels like AjaxWrite, at least, is dormant. Anyone got a better read?

After further review, it appears that Ajax13 — which is the brainchild of Linspire founder and Open Source champion Michael Robertson, is focusing its efforts and consolidating its apps behind AjaxWindows, a fairly ingenious replication of the MS Windows desktop experience hooked to Open Source apps and online storage in a way that feels, at first blush at least, pretty seamless and powerful. So maybe AjaxWrite isn’t so much dead as it is assimilated.

March 8, 2008 - Posted by dshafer | Ajax13 Apps | , , | No Comments Yet

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