It is sometimes difficult to remember that every organization, whether a newspaper, a state government, or a a school, exists only because of people: people who work for the organization and people who are served by the organization.

This principle is true for Omnitech as well. We are who we are today because of people: our employees and our clients.

When Omnitech was incorporated back in November of 1998, the world of online technology was approaching an apex. People with good (and sometimes not so good) ideas were being chased by venture capitalists with briefcases full of cash. New technology companies seemed to sprout from cracks in the concrete at business parks everywhere.

We began without whiz-bang ideas, venture capital or even a cool sock puppet to help out. Instead, Omnitech began with a handful of people who were good at what we did and who had determined that combining efforts as members of a single team would allow for every one of us to be more effective, efficient and, ultimately, more successful. We started with people who knew how to meet our clients’ business needs.

In the beginning, our employees (most of whom had been independent software developers) brought their clients with them. Once again, we didn’t have many clients, but those we had trusted us to take care of them – and we did.

Since those days, we have grown to about 40 employees. Our client base has expanded several times over the last 9 years. Though much of our business is based in the regional market, we now have clients around the nation and in several countries overseas. Regardless of where on the map our clients may be, we continue to bring them the best technology solutions for their needs.

When you have a medical need, you visit the doctor. When you have a business need which would benefit from a custom software solution, we’d like you to visit us. We are in the technology business: the business of using technology to meet the needs of people like you.

So what is AJAX and why do you want it? The word AJAX is nothing more than an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. If you are from Brazil, AJAX could stand for the Associação de Jogadores Amadores de Xadrez. However, we are not speaking of the Brazilian Chess Fans Players Association. When we talk about AJAX, we are discussing a technique used for creating highly interactive web applications. No one owns it and neither is it a technology, as such. Rather it is a new and growing approach for architecting web sites and web applications using several classic technologies:

• Standard Presentation (X)HTML and CSS
• The Document Object Model (DOM)
• Server Data Exchange via the XMLHttpRequest Object
• Javascript (which binds it all together)