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There's been lots of talk recently about desktop/web platforms. Last week we mentioned more News Reader desktop apps powered by Microsoft’s WPF platform, and of course this week Adobe has featured twice on R/WW due to its unveiling of Apollo. Morfik, has mostly been flying under the radar for the past year, but their 100% Ajax platform is getting set for its 1.0 release at the end of March. It’s good news to see more and more competition getting on. Possibly their main threat though is whatever Google might be cooking up. The Google Web Toolkit is a similar tool to Morfik, in that it enables developers to create sophisticated Ajax applications using Java. There was even a rumour swirling around in May last year that Google partnered with Morfik, or licensed technology from it. I will prefer to wait and see what Morfik has to offer when they release their product in March rather than giving too much of an early commentary.