As we enter the new era of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma of deciding which way to go: remain with tried and true Java and .NET or experiment with newcomers that have followed in the wake of AJAX such as AIR/Flash/Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, among others. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is now open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.
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its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that
will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy
advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.