Tibco to open source, upgrade AJAX toolkit

San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Tibco Software on Monday is announcing its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open source format. The product, based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), is being made available via open source as part of the company's announcement of General Interface Version 3.2, which supports the Firefox 1.5 browser. The company is offering the beta release on Monday. Other new features in Version 3.2 include additional components such as tree grids and scalable vector graphics for Firefox.