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For .Net developers, Silverlight is easy to transition to and easy to incorporate into our projects. We can use the same business logic/classes we wrote for other systems in .Net. If you're an old school EJB developer, Silverlight is probably as strange as Flash, but if you do .Net now, Silverlight is extremely easy.

Silverlight is more acompetator of Flex than just Flash, because it has a lot of client/server power. you can also share sessions with your web sessions and interact with multiple servers at the same time (with special permissions).

Since Silverlight is part of Microsoft, you automatically get the latest Silverlight plug-in with Windows updates. That bankroll you're talking about comes from the real power of Microsoft--marketshare. I remember the arguments from Netscape about it being ubiquitous and IE being slow and error-prone. Now the only people who use non-IE browsers are Mac users and people who won't use Microsoft out of principle ("I'm not using MS and you can't make me!").

Flash is still good and there are lots of existing apps and future MS-hater code camps that will keep it around. But its a hard sell for new projects using .Net compared with Silverlight; the art is done by artists and the code is done by the same web devs that do the rest of the site.
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is Flash chopped liver?  itinko | 09/05/08
Great JavaScript performance means that Flash is relegated to kids games,  DonnieBoy | 09/05/08
What it has going for it is it's not Flash...  jasonp@... | 09/05/08
You forgot to mention  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/05/08
That is so true!!! I can remember when ZDNet had a problem with some  DonnieBoy | 09/05/08
That's rubbish  GOTBO | 09/09/08
Two clear advantages  LBiege | 09/05/08
au contraire mon frere  itinko | 09/29/08
We don't need to learn a new language  A Gray | 09/05/08
Flash also has the benefit of dealing with media  Mitch Ratcliffe ZDNet Moderator | 09/05/08
Just MS trying to belittle a competitor  GrailWebD | 09/08/08
Interesting that they are so frank!! But, with JavaScript performance  DonnieBoy | 09/05/08
JavaFX...  tick tock | 09/05/08
Well, Java suffers from being too tightly controlled by Sun still. They  DonnieBoy | 09/05/08
If you can do more for less  mdemuth | 09/05/08
Java is NOT a proprietary platform anymore  atari_z | 09/06/08
There's a big difference between Java..  GOTBO | 09/09/08
Doubtful  jasonp@... | 09/05/08
FSVO "success"  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/05/08
So ~90% of the market?  mdemuth | 09/05/08
Cart before the horse...  storm14k | 09/05/08
90% of which market?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/05/08
Very true  mdemuth | 09/05/08
Plus, even in a mobile device ...  LBiege | 09/05/08
Silverlight is a plug-in  A Gray | 09/05/08
Truly?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/05/08
Truly?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 09/05/08
Divide and Conquer  gary_edwards | 09/05/08
Developers Turning Fast to Open Standards! grin  i2fun@... | 09/05/08
Just wondering...  jdickey | 09/07/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  atari8bit@... | 09/05/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  mo@... | 09/06/08
if they don't have it, they won't come  itinko | 09/29/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  mememememeeeee | 09/06/08
Yes.  Grayson Peddie | 09/06/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  dgerard | 09/06/08
superfast javascript and yet superslow language.  magallanes | 09/06/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  Kebbles | 09/07/08
You can write Actionscript in notepad  GrailWebD | 09/08/08
RE: Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight  GOTBO | 09/09/08
Re-hashing the same "news"..........  drusquared | 09/09/08

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