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Andre, Alexei and I had a chat with Coté and Stephen from RedMonk yesterday. They both seem (and no doubt are) very knowledgeable about the AJAX space - certainly compared to other analysts with whom we have spoken (and shall remain nameless). Not only did they seem genuinely interested and understand the business problem that we are trying to solve but they (thankfully) didn’t even try to sell us their services! They seem like the kind of people we could work worth as we grow our business in the coming year.

What they understood was that the real value of AJAX is quite boring. It is in the mundane spaces like ERP - not the exciting, and ultimately fairly useless, arena of something like online maps. I have been talking about this idea of boring AJAX for some time and maybe people are starting to see that those enterprise systems like CRM are where the real benefits of AJAX will be found. Needless to say, that is precisely the market that we are targeting with our high performance components.