The commercial suite, based on Gizmox's open-source Visual WebGui platform, features integration with Visual Studio, scalability, and redundancy with server extensions Gizmox on Monday is unveiling a commercial version of its Visual WebGui product for building enterprise-class rich Internet applications.Previously available as an open-source technology, Visual WebGui is designed as an AJAX/Silverlight development framework for RIA development. The commercially offered Visual WebGui Professional Studio suite features an enhanced developer experience, integration with Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment, scalability, and redundancy with server extensions, Gizmox said.[ Test Center: InfoWorld’s review of Silverlight. ] Also, Gizmox is offering related services such as prototyping, consulting and hot fixes. Gizmox said Visual WebGui can reduce application development time by as much as 90 percent while offering the highest levels of security, the company said.Visual WebGui applications run on a Windows Web server and are virtualized on a standard browser, said Navot Peled, CEO and founder of Gizmox.“What we are offering now is a commercial suite, which includes a [Windows Forms] designer that enhances developer productivity,” Peled said. Also, developers can wrap ASP.Net controls and include them in Visual WebGui applications. Developers can build customized applications in DHTML or a Silverlight UI using the same code base. A third-party wrappers control is offered as well.Subscribers to the product receive unlimited technical support, an enterprise-grade warranty and a service level agreement.More than 30,000 Visual WebGui applications have been deployed at such companies as IBM and SAP, Gizmox said. Applications are in use by banks, insurance firms, government agencies, aerospace companies, and others. Gizmox will continue to offer the option to develop on the Visual WebGui open-source platform. But the company will offer an upgrade to the commercial product.A pre-release version of Visual WebGui Professional Suite can be purchased for half price until April, costing $749 for a one-year subscription. A release candidate is due in April with the general release due in six months. Software DevelopmentDevelopment Tools