After reading the recent Wired news story claiming a web revolution based on AJAX (Slashdot coverage), I’m excited to see where web developers will take us. Although I really like the direction KDE is taking, most futurists agree that high-powered desktops will eventually be obsoleted by low-powered networked computers and thin-clients. AJAX is the perfect platform with those devices in mind.
AJAX can be nearly anything:
Personal Information Manager
Calendar
Webmail
Server-data-dependent app, like Point of Sale, Content Management, Customer Management, Shopping, and Databases
AJAX might work well for:
Word processing
Spreadsheets
Presentation creation
AJAX wouldn’t work at all for:
Pro image editing (although basic photo sorting / editing could work, and already exists)
Pro video editing (not really until Internet 2 would this even be thinkable)
Pro sound editing (ditto)
The secret is…(shh)… Google could do it all and make billions!!!