My "Flex for the Enterprise" presentation at AjaxWorld'06

I had an opportunity to speak at the AjaxWorld Conference in Santa Clara yesterday. The conference is for the Ajax developers, but also had a separate track dedicated to Flex. For some reason my session was not part of the Flex track, but instead was placed into the "Key Issues" track category. Go figure!

I anticipated an adversary audience, but was pleasantly surprised to see people reacting very positively to my delivery of Flex. Sys-con recorded the session, so the video should be available some time in the near future (I assume).

I hear a lot of folks talking about Flex and Ajax coexisting in the same enterprise, moreover the main marketing push by Adobe is to position Flex as a complementary technology. In my mind I still do not understand how Flex can be positioned that way. It is either one or the other. If you're building the next MySpace or Netvibes, go with Ajax. Your users will demand high level of customization and it will be much easier to accomplish it with DHTML/JavaScript. However, if you want to build a cool management console, next generation order entry system or datacenter monitoring app, you will save a TON of time (read money) if you go with Flex.

You can download the slides for my presentation here.