TEL AVIV, Israel, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Solves Enterprise Level Development Complexities and Security
Challenges of AJAX by Providing an Open Source Solution With no Client
Dependency and Proven Reductions in Development Time of Over 80%

Visual WebGui, developer of the AJAX enterprise application development
and deployment platform, today announces the availability of their enhanced
browser-based solution.

The company, whose solution has reduced enterprise application
development times at companies like SAP, Network D, and others by more than
80%, also announces that Visual WebGui, which is seamlessly integrated into
Microsoft's Visual Studio and .NET framework, will soon launch a Microsoft
Silverlight compliant solution supported by Microsoft.

Since the company's soft launch in mid 2007, there have been 150,000
downloads of Visual WebGui's browser-based solution with more than 20,000
applications developed using the company's technology.

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a combination of Javascript and
XML technologies that allow the content of a web page to be updated without
reloading the entire page. This enables browser-based applications to behave
like software applications. Though AJAX provides a rich and full application
experience for users, AJAX's penetration into the enterprise market has been
hampered due to time-consuming development complexities and security
concerns. Specifically, developers have had difficulty developing complex
enterprise applications that offer standard browser accessibility, uniform
performance, offline operability and a quick migration of legacy applications
to web, and are challenged by a potential client-side lack of "industrial
strength" and security breaches.

Visual WebGui solves the development setbacks associated with AJAX by
providing developers with a Rapid Application Development solution with full
Win Forms support. Visual WebGui's provides their Software Developer's Kit
(SDK) free as open-sourced software. The company also provides complete
support and utilization of all .NET capabilities.

Visual WebGui solves the security issues known in AJAX-developed
enterprise applications by eliminating client side service consumption and
business logic processing using the empty client concept.

To obtain a better understanding of the value Visual WebGui brings to
enterprise application development with AJAX, we invite you to view this
presentation: Visual WebGui Paradigm Shift (
http://gizmox.fileburst.com/Presentations/ParadigmShift/Index.html)

Microsoft Silverlight product manager Barak Cohen wrote the following
about Visual WebGui on his blog "[Visual WebGui has] developed an application
UI framework that bridges veteran practices of building enterprise
applications (using WinForms) with web 2.0 style application delivery (AJAX
style). The idea behind their solution is that the WinForm application style
can be sub-classed to have a class that separates the UI implementation (and
optimizes the communication between the UI and the application logic) from
the UI logic. The result is a modern Web 2.0 style application that was
developed with the Windows Forms UI paradigm."

"The next generation of this technology will be using Silverlight to
achieve a more powerful UI for this new type of rich interactive
applications," added Cohen.

To read Barak Cohen's complete blog posting about Visual WebGui, please
click here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bardak/archive/2007/12/26/gizmox-and-bridging-the-gap-between-windows-forms-developmnent-and-silverlight-ajax-style-applications.aspx

For SAP, Visual WebGui enabled their Netweaver UI Cross Development team
to deliver a complex, data intensive web application in 22.5 man months
instead of the estimated 216 man months, a savings of nearly 90%. "Developers
across SAP Labs teams have since considered using Visual WebGui for their
projects after seeing the outcome of our project," said Asaf Saar, Team
Leader of SAP Labs Netweaver UI Cross Development team.

Visual WebGui was founded in 2007 and has secured US$1.75 million in
funding to date from Maayan Ventures, a leading early stage investment group
and technology incubator, and private investors.

"With an unprecedented 150,000 downloads and more than 20,000
applications developed with our browser-based AJAX enterprise application
development platform and support from industry leaders like Microsoft, SAP,
NetworkD and more, Visual WebGui is becoming the de facto enterprise
development application platform for enterprise 2.0," said Prof. Arie Scope,
active chairman of Visual WebGui and former Microsoft Israel General Manager
& Chairman.

"Though Visual WebGui browser-based solution is and will remain a free,
open-source platform, the company will generate revenue from development
partnerships, premium enterprise dedicated controls and components,
Silverlight extensions, enhanced scalability, plug-in support, customized
development and a market place that will be a third party's (Visual WebGui's
community developers) channel for their propriety development and other
future added-value products and services," said Mr. Navot Peled, CEO, Visual
WebGui. "We will announce the commercial version of Visual WebGui in April
2008."

About Visual WebGui

Visual WebGui is the leading developer of AJAX enterprise application
development and deployment platforms. The company's solutions solve the
challenges associated with AJAX development because they are as easy to use
as WinForms and eliminate client-side security concerns. Visual WebGui's
solutions reduce enterprise application development times at companies like
SAP, Network D, Pyramid Group and others by more than 80%. The company's
standard browser-based platform is available as a free, open-source solution
and as an enterprise-grade commercial solution (available April 2008). Visual
WebGui, which is seamlessly integrated into Microsoft's Visual Studio and
.NET framework, also provides a Silverlight solution supported by Microsoft.
For more information about the company or to download Visual WebGui, please
visit http://www.visualwebgui.com

Contact Info:

    Navot Peled
    Mobile: +972-50-5215436
    Email: Navot.peled@visualwebgui.com