The AJAX effect on server performance

"As new technology is adapted people start to look beyond the initial attraction to understand the true costs and benefits of adoption. This is clearly happening in the AJAX world," the discussion begins. In other words, when you code online applications with Asynchronous Java and XML instead of traditional methods, is a new data bottleneck created on your servers? There are good answers and bad...

For more on the reality check:
- check out this TheServerSide.com article