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October 2nd, 2005
8:10 am

Robert Scoble wants a blank cheque from Microsoft to make a Web 2.0 Company acquisition, but he isn’t saying who.

I commented on his blog that my guess is Morfik but I think Mr. Scoble has been pleading the 5th…

I’ve been communicating with Dr. Martin Roberts at Morfik over the past week to get more information on what the platform is all about and it looks like a real killer app.

The Morfik product is a Web 2.0 application development environment called JavaScript Synthesis Technology (‘JST’). Developers create their app in JST using a drag and drop interface and database designer and have the result compiled as a javascript/html web app.

Once created the application can be used in two ways.

A web based application, with all the ajax goodness.
An offline application that can be used while not connected to the net.

The gmail knockoff they produced in 2 months can be used online AND you can take your mail with you… on a memory stick no less! The entire application can be self contained!

How do they do this?

The compiled application is a combination of ‘compiled Javascript’, html, an embedded Apache web server and an embedded relational Firebird database.

These compiled offline apps and the development environment will initially only be available for Windows (though they are intending versions for Linux and Mac OS X), while the online versions should work on any current standards-based browser.

JST allows you to code in a variety of languages including Morfik Basic, Morfik C#, Morfik Java and Morfik Object Pascal (with more coming) and have the results compiled as a Morfik application. This allows developers to code in a language they are familiar with and have the code morphed into a Javascript/html application.

Robert, if it wasn’t Morfik that you were thinking of and Microsoft, DOES end up buying them, a little finders fee would be cool.

Thanks!

UPDATE: Robert says it’s not Morfik or Laszlo…. hmmm

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This is imho no breakthrough at all.

This has been done several times before.

And in it’s very nature is very aligned to be open source either way.

Thomas, clearly what Morfik is doing HASN’T been done before.

Web applications have have traditionally limited the access of their data to those times that you are connected to the internet.

The ability to be able to take that data with you is a true breakthrough in the world of Web 2.0.

Furthermore, the ability to visually code ajaxified web applications using a variety of popular programming languages, while having it ‘compile’ into javascript is key.

Mark my words, if the product is as good as it appears to be, you’ll see Morfik as THE development platform for Web 2.0 applications.

There have been “offline layers” for web-apps, they just have not been as far ranging as Morfik. None have been successful either.

I am interesting the marketing blurb from Morfik but I have to be skeptical until I actually get to use it myself. We have heard these claims before. We get all excited, get the product and then find a critical flaw (high client-side requirements etc.)

Have you used Morfik or just read what we have read?

I hope it is all it claims to be.

Paul, I’ve been conversing with Morfik directly and from what I understand it’s the real deal.

As soon as I get access to it, I’ll be sure to post an update.

[…] I’m not sure if Robert Scoble had a hand in sending Ray Ozzie over, I hope his post and my guess played a hand in it. […]

From what I have read, Morfik looks like a really cool dev tool. I hope they resist the temptation to sell out and release and do well.

My Guess is that Google will take over Morfik eventually.
Their technology JST is unique. The option of choice of language
is great.

Gmail was created to prove their ability in creation of
google –Gmail in short period of time.
• “Drag and drop interface creation
• Online and offline use
• Code obfuscation
• Applications in pure HTML and JavaScript
• Visual relational database design
• Visual query builder
Two of their developers built a gmail clone in two months. THAT is amazing.”
“Morfik offers ground-breaking Javascript Synthesis Technology (‘JST’) that allows developers to use a visual design environment and a high-level language of their choice to create applications comprised purely of HTML and Javascript. This revolutionary technology combined with its tight integration of the browser, a database and web server, uniquely offers developers the opportunity to create web applications that run on the desktop after being unplugged from the web. “

Wait and see I believe this technology will be future web operating system.
Microsoft will be in trouble.

Ruby on Rails and the ruby2exe script seem to be a much better choice for me, the same goes for K-Meleon as a client (anybody seen Windows autostarts on Ubuntu CDs? ). Why should I go for something else?

Hey Guys

I think you should goto www.orcaa.com/desktop .. login with “demo” and “demo” .. now.. thats what i call a 2.1 app.

/Leon

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