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A Look at IBM's Blue Spruce Web Browser Platform
by Clint Boulton
Evolution of the Web Browser
Web publishing, rooted in HTML, has evolved to where IBM now sees the browser as the Web platform.
What if?
What does Blue Spruce allow you to do? Collaborate in ways previously not possible.
IBM Calls It the Cooperative Web
IBM promises to replicate the power of face-to-face communications and gestures via the Internet. Not a bad value proposition during a recession. How soon can we get it?
Three Scenarios
Blue Spruce allows groups of users in fields such as education, financial services and medicine to work together on important shared projects.
The Concepts
Users stream live high-definition video and propagate changes in a Web browser.
Blue Spruce Includes Client, Co-Web Server
Here's a look at the makeup of Blue Spruce. Though not open source, the platform leverages several open standards.
Relating to AJAX
Here's how the Blue Spruce components communicate with one another.
Why Blue Spruce?
To boost the quality of live meetings with mashups.
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IBM recently showed eWEEK a demonstration of Blue Spruce, the company's project for enabling collaboration via AJAX-based mashups, including streaming audio and video. The Blue Spruce technology is what you'd get if you rolled IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte and IBM enterprise mashups into one platform to let multiple users collaborate through a Web browser at the same time. See the specifications in this presentation from IBM's Emerging Internet Technologies division.