Concerning Chidambaram's Blog Entry: "Is it all about aggregating what others did ? !!"
"In this context, I can see how AJAX can be used as one of the many "cosmetic tool" that real businesses use, but in itself cannot be very useful....Because ajax deals only with client side stuff and without any server side components, its hardly useful to any serious business.....atleast I am not convinced yet....."
I agree with you, that AJAX is a "kind of" "cosmetic tool" because its main "usage" is indeed on the client side. But when you say that AJAX "in itself cannot be very useful" I have to disagree with you. Because considering that AJAX is just a technique uses a combination of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, I would say it is very useful and that most of the real businesses already use such techniques.
And even if
"ajax deals only with client side stuff and without any server side components"
it is a very valuable technique (or combination of techniques) for each business dealing with customers on the web (usability!!!). Or even if it is "only" for businesses intranets for the employees thus these can work more efficiently!
Therfore - in my opinion - AJAX is a technique that is VERY (instead of hardly) useful to any serious business!
-Joern