We’ve seen it serveral times in history. Company A launches a new, innovative product and company B takes it, copies it and wins the competition. Not that we have come so far in just such a short time of AJAX apps but there are quite a few examples: RSS readers: Bloglines (acquired by AskJeeves), Rojo,…

AJAX applications are far from replacing desktop office apps. So is Flash by the way. Several projects are trying to prove the opposite. I still think that it will not happen. The current development is only a rise of quite sophisticated JavaScript applications. We had such applications before but now it’s “in” or rather acceptable…