Two key differences are that this is a collaboration of the Dojo Offline project and Google (which grew out of dojo.storage which is based around flash storage) and is using a relational DB (SQLite) as opposed to a flat-file data store.

It's also Open Source and they have support from Adobe, Mozilla and Opera (as mentioned in the Press Release).

I've heard good things about using a company like Thoughtworks or Valtech for this kind of thing. They like to do mentoring too, so you can slowly build up your own team while building a product.

would you be up-in-arms is Microsoft's next server platform was called Minux? Thanks.

Or even better, Winux.