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Why AJAX Is So Disruptive
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04/06/2006, By Dion Hinchcliffe
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Anyway, it's easy to forget we have a long way to go in the next generation of the Web. Years and years. As Shel Israel put it so pointedly yesterday, "Web 2.0 isn't dead. It's just barely being born." And smart folks that study the big picture of all this realize seismic things are afoot. That our personal and work lives are being transformed with surprising speed and ease to this new world of pervasive, online, collaborative, aggressively integrated, two-way software. Patrick Cormier recently had some good observations that the old creaky, slow-moving, and unresponsive software of old is going away. It just can't compete with this vibrant, dynamic way of creating, delivering, using, and leveraging software as a service. It's not a new way, as he observes, good software tended always to be built this way, just not so consciously.
But I assert that Ajax encourages, even enables, software creators down a path that is inherently disruptive to the greater software world. Here's why:
Ajax's Disruptive Influences
The End of Software Upgrades, Fixes, and Security Patches
Software and Data Available Wherever You Go
Isolated Software Can't Compete with Connected Software
Deprecation of the Traditional Operating System
Software That Is Invisible
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