WaveMaker, a company founded by several principals of the Dojo project, and which also counts former Sybase head  Mitchell Kertzman on its board, has added some more database royalty. Roger Sippl, Informix founder and like Kertzman, now a VC, has also joined the board. That's in conjunction with winning a third round of $4.5 million funding (from Kertzman's and Sippl's venture firms) which is planned to be used for broadening their developer network.

Like the current crop of Ajax tooling, Wavemaker's goal has been to hide the JavaScript in favor of a visual drag and drop environment as possible. Like the beloved Data Window of PowerBuilder yore , Wavemaker's tool lets you drag a Dojo toolkit widget over a database table, and presto, you've populated a database query or input form for your web app. Not surorisbngly, they have cultivated a relatrioship with MySQL, which is a likely target database for web apps.

Given all the connections to the client/server database world, it's not surprising that the company terms its vision to becoming "the PowerBuilder for Web 2.0 development."

Wavemaker plans to invest the new funding in building sales & marketing (the usual target for C rounds) and for growing its online devleoper community. And, surprise surprise, Wavemaker's product roadmap for th eyear are to deliver, what a spokesperson termed, "a PowerBuilder-like solution" for building web apps via onsite or on demand.

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