AJAXWorld Magazine readers nominated close to 300 companies who furthered the AJAX technology in 2006 to the "Best AJAX Technology Provider of 2006" readers' choice award. Voting will start in January 2007 and the results of the first annual AJAXWorld Readers' Choice Awards will be annonced during the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West in September. The following is a list of the nominated companies:

3Tera (www.3tera.com); Abaque (www.abaqueinside.com) About (www.about-inc.com); Accenture (www.accenture.com); Active Endpoints (www.active-endpoints.com); Actuate (www.actuate.com);  Adaptive (www.adaptive-arts.com); Adaptive Blue (www.adaptiveblue.com);  AdaptivePath (www.adaptivepath.com);  Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com); Ajax13 (www.ajax13.com); Akamai Technologies (www.akamai.com; Allurent (www.allurent.com); Amazon.com (www.amazon.com); AmeriTeach (www.ameriteach.com); Applibase (www.apllibase.com); Apress (www.apress.com); Art & Logic (www.artlogic.com);  Asperon Corporation (www.asperon.com);  Autobytel (www.autobytel.com);  Azul Systems (www.azulsystems.com); Backbase (www.backbase.com BEA Systems (www.bea.com); Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com); Blue Whale Labs (www.bluewhalelabs.com); Borland (www.borland.com); Bungee Labs (www.bungeelabs.com); CambrianHouse (www.cambrianhouse.com); Canoo Engineering (www.canoo.com); Cassatt (www.cassatt.com); Cenzic (www.launchsquad.com); CG Principals (www.cgprincipals.com); Claria (www.claria.com); ClearNova (www.clearnova.com); CMS Watch (www.cmswatch.com); Codign Software (www.codign.com); ComponentArt (www.componentart.com); ComponentOne (www.componentone.com); CSS Group (www.cybernetsoft.com); cStar Technologies (www.cstartech.com); Curl Corporation (www.curl.com); Custom Credit Systems (www.customcreditsystems.com); Cynergy Systems (www.cynergysystems.com); Dassault Systèmes (www.ds-fr.com); DataDirect Technologies (www.datadirect.com); deCarta, Inc. (www.decarta.com); DHI Technologies (www.dhitechnologies.com); DiscountASP.NET (www.discountasp.net) eBay (www.ebay.com) eBusiness Applications (www.ebusiness-apps.com); edge IPK (www.edgeipk.com); Ektron (www.ektron.com); Elastic Path Software (www.elasticpath.com); Enerjy Software (www.enerjy.com); ENOVIA Matrix One (www.matrixone.com); Etelos Systems (www.etelos.com); Evans Data (www.evansdata.com); Exadel (www.exadel.com); ezAJAX (www.ez-ajax.com); Fair Isaac (www.fairissac.com); FAST (www.fastsearch.com); Finetooth (www.finetooth.com); Fiorano Software (www.fiorano.com); FiveRuns (www.fiveruns.com); Foldera (www.foldera.com); Freewebs (www.freewebs.com); Froglogic (www.froglogic.com); Furtherahead.com (www.furtherahead.com); Fusion Technologies (www.fusiontech.com); Genuitec (www.genuitec.com); Getahead (www.getahead.ltd.uk); Glassbox (www.glassbox.com); Google   (www.google.com); GridApp Systems (www.gridapp.com); hakia, Inc. (www.hakia.com); Helmi Technologies (www.helmitechnologies.com); HostMySite.com (www.HostMySite.com); HOWS Corporation (www.hows.ws); IBM (www.ibm.com); ICESoft (www.icesoft.com); idynaTECH (www.idynatech.com); ILOG (www.ilog.com); iNetOffice (www.iNetOffice.com); InetSoft (www.inetsoftcorp.com); Infragistics (www.infragistics.com); Innominds (www.innominds.com); Innoopract (www.innoopract.com); Instantiations (www.instantiations.com); Intel (www.intel.com); Interactive Networks (www.interactiveni.com); Iona Technologies (www.iona.com); IP Unity (www.ipunity.com); IQ Interactive (www.kcsa.com); IT Mill (www.itmill.com); JackBe (www.jackbe.com); Jadeliquid (www.jadeliquid.com); Jaspersoft (www.jaspersoft.com); Javeline (www.javeline.com); JetBrains (www.intellij.com); Jive Software (www.jivesoftware.com); Joomla! (www.joomla.org); KNOVA Software (www.knova.com); Laszlo Systems (www.laszlosystems.com); Liferay (www.liferay.com); Lightstreamer (www.lightstreamer.com); Lionbridge (www.lionbridge.com); Lumen (www.lumensoftware.com); Mainsoft (www.mainsoft.com); Manning Publications (www.manning.com); Mapsolute (www.mapsolute.com); Mayfield Fund (www.mayfield.com); Memorable Affairs (www.memorable-affairs.com); Metaphorical Web (kurt.cagle@gmail.com); Microsoft (www.microsoft.com); Midnight Coders (www.themidnightcoders.com); Molecular (www.molecular.com); Morfik (www.morfik.com); Murano (www.muranosoft.com); mydecide.com (www.mydecide.com); Netmite (www.netmite.com); NewsGator (www.newsgator.com); Nexaweb (www.nexaweb.com); Nextapp (www.nextapp.com); Nitobi (www.nitobi.com); Novell (www.novell.com); NSIcom (www.nsicom.com); NTCA (www.ntca.org); OASIS (www.oasis-open.org); Open Ajax Alliance (jferrai@us.ibm.com); OpenLink Software (www.sopenlinksw.com); OpenSpot (www.openspot.com); Opera Software (www.opera.com);  Optaros              (www.optaros.com); Oracle (www.oracle.com); Parasoft (www.parasoft.com); PavingWays (www.pavingways.com); Pixsy (www.pixsy.com); Plaxo (www.plaxo.com); Polaris (www.polarisventures.com); Racepoint Group (www.racepointgroup.com); Radialpoint (www.radialpoint.com); RadView Software (www.radview.com); Raining Data Corporation (www.rainingdata.com); RealNetworks (www.real.com); Red Hat (www.redhat.com); Roaring Penguin (www.roaringpenguin.com);  Roundarch (www.roundarch.com); Salesforce.com (www.salesforce.com); SAP (www.sap.com); Scalix (www.scalix.com); Seagull Software (www.seagullsoftware.com); Semotus Solutions (www.semotus.com); Serebrum Software (www.serebrum.com); Serendipity (www.serendipity-tech.com); SiteKreator (www.sitekreator.com); Six Apart (www.sixapart.com); Skillbuilders (www.skillbuilders.com); SkyCom (www.skycom.jp); Skyway Software (www.skywaysoftware.com); SlickEdit (www.slickedit.com); SMS.ac (www.sms.ac); Software AG (www.softwareag.com); Software FX (www.softwarefx.com); Software Research (www.soft.com); Soonr (www.soonr.com) Sourcio (www.sourcio.com); SPI Dynamics (www.spidynamics.com); Splunk (www.splunk.com); Stampede Technologies (www.stampede.com); StreamFoundry (www.streamfoundry.com); SugarCRM (www.sugarcrm.com); Summit Software (www.summitsoftware.biz); Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com); Sxip Identity Corporation (www.sxip.com); Syncfusion (www.syncfusion.com); Technical Pursuit (www.technicalpursuit.com); Telerik (www.telerik.com); Tersus Software (www.tersus.com); The Advanced Alliance Group (www.aa3group.com); The DSW Group (www.thedswgroup.com); TIBCO Software (www.tibco.com); TopQuadrant (www.topquadrant.com); TransFirst (www.transfirst.com); Trivera Technologies (www.triveratech.com); U1 Group (www.u1.com); Value Labs (www.valuelabs.com); Visible Measures (www.visiblemeasures.com); Web360 (www.web360.com); WebSpiders (www.webspiders.com); Webtide (www.webtide.com); WSO2 (www.wso2.com); Xerago (www.xerago.com); Xignite (www.xignite.com); Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com); Yesmail (www.yesmail.com); Zapatec (www.zapatec.com); Zetools (www.zetools.com); and Zimbra (www.zimbra.com).