Ken Gardner, executive chairman for SOASTA, is an industry veteran with more than 30 years in the enterprise software industry. He is a six-time entrepreneur having previously been the founder and CEO of Istante (acquired by Oracle in December 2004); Sagent Technology (IPO in April 1999); ReportSmith (acquired by Borland in March 1994); and ViewPoint Systems (acquired by Knowledgeware in June 1992). His first startup, in 1985, was Tesseract Corporation where he was senior vice president of Technology. From 1978 to 1985, he worked in R&D at Tymshare, Inc.
This is truly the age of the browser interface. Internet Websites and Web
applications increasingly offer rich, dynamic, browser-based user interfaces
that deliver everything you expect from an installed desktop application.
These applications deliver function and ease-of-use without requiring
expensive desktop software installs.
The underlying technology for this browser UI approach has existed for a
decade but the term AJAX was coined in 2005 by Jesse James Garrett of
Adaptive Path. The core of this approach is the ability to make dynamic,
asynchronous data requests of a Web server without having to reload the Web
page or hit the refresh button. This approach enables Web developers to build
rich UIs that run on every browser and across every popular platform.
In the la... (more)
This is truly the age of the browser interface. Internet Web sites and Web
applications increasingly offer rich, dynamic, browser-based user interfaces
that deliver everything you expect from an installed desktop application.
These applications deliver function and ease-of-use without requiring
expensive desktop software installs.
The underlying technology for this browser UI approach has... (more)
Ken Gardner, executive chairman for SOASTA, is an industry veteran with more than 30 years in the enterprise software industry. He is a six-time entrepreneur having previously been the founder and CEO of Istante (acquired by Oracle in December 2004); Sagent Technology (IPO in April 1999); ReportSmith (acquired by Borland in March 1994); and ViewPoint Systems (acquired by Knowledgeware in June 1992). His first startup, in 1985, was Tesseract Corporation where he was senior vice president of Technology. From 1978 to 1985, he worked in R&D at Tymshare, Inc. 
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