2005, coincident with the release of version 3.0, the name of the Laszlo Presentation Server was changed to OpenLaszlo. Timeline 2000: Prototyping begins 2001: Development begins 2002: LPS preview releases; first deployed Laszlo application (Behr) 2003: LPS 1.0, 1.1 released; deployed applications (Yahoo!, Earthlink) 2004: LPS 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 released; LPS open sourced 2005: OpenLaszlo 3.0, 3.1 released; name changed to OpenLaszlo 2006: OpenLaszlo 3.2, 3.3 released 2007: OpenLaszlo 4.0 released 2008: OpenLaszlo 4.1 released 2008: OpenLaszlo 4.2 released 2009 February: OpenLaszlo 4.2.0.1 released 2010 October: OpenLaszlo 4.9.0. released 2012 February: OpenLaszlo is acquired by Critical Path, Inc. 2013 December: Critical Path, Inc. is acquired by Openwave Messaging Naming The name Laszlo is of Hungarian origin. The project was named after the cat of Peter Andrea, a graphic designer and co-founder of Laszlo Systems. The cat, in turn, was named in honor of the Hungarian constructivist painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy. See also List of user interface markup languages Comparison of user interface markup languages List of rich web application frameworks References Further reading External links . Ajax (programming) User interface markup languages Rich web application frameworks Software using the CPL license