Flex Vs Ajax

I'm currently testing Flex 2.0 Beta, but not sure to purchase the product 
because of the cost.  $14,000/ cpu  i't's pricey and not sure it's worth the 
money.  Is there anyone familiar with Ajax?  Which is better Flex or Ajax. I 
know that Ajax is open source, but not sure how the it works.  

Right, Ajax doesn't come with an IDE for one (possibly you could use morfik but

it's about 20 times more complex).

 Ajax is just an evolution of Javascript, it's nothing new and has been around 
for many many years - you could say the same about flex but the fundemental 
difference is the way it allows you to generate wholesale design components in 
a few lines of code and then generate actions on those components with 
ActionScript.

 If I was building a WebOS for example, I might use Ajax to design and 
implement the taskbar, start menu and desktop - then use Flex for the 
applications within the webOS ... someone should really do that actually.

For Flex 2.0, the pricing model has changed from Flex 1.x. The Flex SDK, 
which contains all of the framework code and a command-line debugger is 
free. FlexBuilder, an Eclipse-based IDE will retail for < $1000. The Flex 
Data Services will have a different pricing model that is based on CPU 
usage.



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Jason Szeto
Adobe Flex SDK Developer
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> I'm currently testing Flex 2.0 Beta, but not sure to purchase the product
> because of the cost.  $14,000/ cpu  i't's pricey and not sure it's worth 
> the
> money.  Is there anyone familiar with Ajax?  Which is better Flex or Ajax.

> I
> know that Ajax is open source, but not sure how the it works.
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