[K12OSN] Web based Student Information Systems?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

It does sound good, but given Microsoft's recent tendencies, there is a
concern.  Does it have patent restrictions, like their Office XML or the
FAT file system?  Shame we have to think about this, but unfortunately
we now do....

--TP

Jim McQuillan wrote:
>
>
> Vince Callaway wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:03 -0700, rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
>>  
>>> 2.) Does the new system use AJAX to prevent complete screen updates?
>>> Huh, what's AJAX...
>>>     
>>
>> Ajax has its uses.  And it is not a microsoft thing.  It also has
>>   
> Actually, AJAX should be considered a Microsoft thing.  At the core of
> AJAX is a function called 'XMLHttpRequest', which started life as
> 'XMLHTTP', which was written by....  Microsoft.  (Even Microsoft can
> have a few good ideas)
>
> Take a look at the history of AJAX on the wikipedia article:
>
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
>
>> detractors as well.  Not sure I would bet the farm that it will become
>> widely used in the long term.
>>   
> "widely used" ???  Google, Yahoo and a whole bunch of other large
> companies are doing massive development around AJAX.  I'd say it's
> widely used now, and will become even more so.
>
> I dislike Microsoft just as much as anybody on this list, but I really
> do like AJAX.  I'm doing some incredibly cool cross-platform GUI
> programming using AJAX and it would have been far more difficult
> (damned near impossible) without AJAX.
>
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
>
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