IBM 100% Pure Open AJAX?

I heard about Open AJAX today for the first time while reading the Dr. Dobbs Journal. So, I don't know a lot about it. Only that I am interested in any tool that provides decent JavaScript debugging.

However, reading what they say about it, makes me think it is probably just a piece of "religion-ware":

Eclipse itself is open-source code, so IBM's donated software for running Ajax code is likely to be held as the standard environment in which the output from an Ajax tool must be able to run. If Open Ajax reaches that status, the industry will have a way of measuring departures from standard Ajax and guarding against the possibility of Ajax being implemented in a proprietary or Windows-specific way.

Microsoft has a set of interactive Web technologies, including Ajax, bundled together into what it calls Atlas. "They build it [Atlas] using their own extensions" rather than sticking to strictly Ajax conventions, says David Boloker, IBM's CTO of emerging technology.

By giving Ajax "a common tooling," or Eclipse test platform where different Ajax code can be tested in one runtime environment, IBM is offering a workbench where proprietary extensions will stick out as not working with other people's Ajax.

So, now I am pondering what gives IBM & co. the special gleam to arbitrate on a technology that is in constant flux, with a myriad of ideas and toolkits seeing the light each month, and also a technology that was created by Microsoft seven or eight years ago?

Of course the objective meassure will be how many will find Open AJAX useful and will use it. But I am still interested in knowing how many will buy into this idea that theirs is propper AJAX while Microsoft's is evil AJAX.

We will see... But, right now I don't even feel in the mood to link to them from here.