"AJAX programmers should be more focused on the business requirements of the
applications they are involved in building," declares Rob Tweed of M/Gateway
Developments. Tweed flew to the 6th International AJAX World Conference Expo
from his UK base to make this point in a well-received presentation at a very
busy AJAX World.
Whilst the recent worldwide financial crisis threatens to cast a shadow over
many sectors, the AJAX development community is particularly at risk. The
reason is that over the last 20 years we've seen a change in the cost
elements of applications shift from hardware, then software and now the
programming team. Hardware is now trivially cheap, FOSS software tools has
removed their cost and what's left is the cost of programming and application
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