Boring AJAX 
March 3rd, 2006
Andre, Alexei and I had a chat with Cot� and Stephen from RedMonk yesterday. They both seem (and no doubt are) very knowledgeable about the AJAX space - certainly compared to other analysts with whom we have spoken (and shall remain nameless). Not only did they seem genuinely interested and understand the business problem that we are trying to solve but they (thankfully) didn’t even try to sell us their services! They seem like the kind of people we could work worth as we grow our business in the coming year.
What they understood was that the real value of AJAX is quite boring. It is in the mundane spaces like ERP - not the exciting, and ultimately fairly useless, arena of something like online maps. I have been talking about this idea of boring AJAX for some time and maybe people are starting to see that those enterprise systems like CRM are where the real benefits of AJAX will be found. Needless to say, that is precisely the market that we are targeting with our high performance components.
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March 8th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Redmonk is one of the few analyst firms that get it. Hopefully you will support them with your patronage later�
March 8th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Thanks for the kind words
You�re right on about AJAX finding a profitable life in enterprise software, in addition to other spaces. I look forward to seeing you guys tackle that huge opportunity. Keep us in the loop for sure!
March 8th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
insights without hassling you for money? I am going to have to fire those guys�
March 9th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
�Redmonk is one of the few analyst firms that get it. Hopefully you will support them with your patronage later� �
No doubt!!!