Many of the biggest players in the industry proclaim that AJAX is dead. Obviously they claim this for their own reasons.Silverlight is the future, Flex is the future, and so on. Everyone wants to own the internet with proprietary binary code. Probably will this showdown between these industry giants not result in a clear winner. Rich Internet Applications are glued together by open standards and open technologies. The thing here is that we also believe that AJAX is dead, but not in the same sense or for the same reasoning. We believe AJAX is another paradigm shift in the history of computing.

Here are 7 reasons why. 

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