Ajatus is a new distributed CRM that “runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer. It uses the CouchDb object database for data storage and enjoys a wide range of plug-in and replication possibilities.”

The Ajax side of the house uses jQuery for fun and profit.

It is a lot of fun to see people get excited and creative around CouchDb, which recently had the first major release featuring:

• a REST API using JSON instead of XML for data transport,
• a JavaScript view engine based on Mozilla Spidermonkey,
• a GNU Autotools build system supporting most POSIX systems (Noah Slater) ,
• a built-in administration interface (Christopher Lenz),
• experimental fulltext search with Lucene (Jan Lehnardt) and
• countless tweeks, enhancements and other small refinements.