ZapFlash has a provocative opening about rich Internet applications in its latest newsletter, entititled "The Dissolution of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) Market,"  but the conclusion is a bit tamer.

The writers, Jason Bloomberg & Ronald Schmelzer, note that the "concept of RIA spans the gamut of applications from those that barely have any richness to them at all in one extreme, to considerably rich and interactive applications that made use of a wide range of RIA capabilities in the other."