The benefits of AJAX to the enterprise/SOA are clear, including: The ability to leverage the same interface technology no matter if you're dealing with local or remote sites or applications. What's key about AJAX is that many enterprises can agree that it's the standard interface technology, and as such standardize on AJAX as the common user interface that's platform agnostic. Thus, it matters not if the AJAX in The benefits of AJAX to the enterprise/SOA are clear, including: The ability to leverage the same interface technology no matter if you’re dealing with local or remote sites or applications. What’s key about AJAX is that many enterprises can agree that it’s the standard interface technology, and as such standardize on AJAX as the common user interface that’s platform agnostic. Thus, it matters not if the AJAX interface is delivered on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. This makes deploying service-oriented enterprise applications that much easier, avoiding platform localization and testing issues. Software Development