“Google brought in a big team of the top Ajax developers,” in order to launch its Ajax-powered services, notes Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. “But Google is a multiple-billion dollar company and so it’s been able to do that.”

Schmelzer has no doubt that Ajax will ultimately become widely deployed with Web services and SOA.

“We’re not seeing it much today yet, but we will in the future,” he believes. “Ajax hasn’t made its way into products yet, but it certainly will soon. Probably within the next twenty-four months it will be hard to find a significant enterprise application that doesn’t have some Ajax in it.”

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