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Article: Get rich online: Rich Internet Applications pay big dividends.
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- April 1, 2006
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As the Internet matures, businesses and individuals have increasingly moved online to access applications that used to be the exclusive domain of the desktop. Some organizations, especially those with a global presence, find that, even for mission-critical processes, it makes sense to use Web-based applications, which have a central database and common user interface and are available from whatever location one might log on. On the consumer side, users have come to expect services such as email via the Web as common practice, and increasingly use the Web to access RSS feeds and bookmarks, and in some cases even to store, access, and share files from anywhere they have an ...