Tibco GI now opensource

TIBCO General Interface is a AJAX rich internet application (RIA) toolkit that lets organizations capitalize on the lower costs of Web applications while delivering the rich graphical look and feel of desktop-installed software and components. General Interface helps you in creating sophisticated web-based applications that run in a standard web browser without plug-ins, Active-X controls, Java applets or client-side software installation. Now, Tibco released Tibco General Interface (GI) 3.2 Beta, which is opensourced under the BSD license. Tibco GI, version 3.2 introduces several major features:

• New BSD license
• Firefox 1.5 support
• powerful new components
• New Matrix control combines Tree, List and Edit Grid capabilities and adds large data set scrolling and pagination tuners
• Chart package implemented in SVG to enable execution in Firefox without a plug-in
• Load-time optimizations with smaller initial footprint
• API and visual tooling enhancements throughout
• Lots more as described in the release notes