http://www.kenrawlings.com/archives/2007/04/22/flex-silverlight/ Tilting at Windmills Since 1970 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.kenrawlings.com/archives/2007/04/22/flex-silverlight/#comment-5258 Morten Fri, 04 May 2007 05:45:58 +0000 http://www.kenrawlings.com/archives/2007/04/22/flex-silverlight/#comment-5258 All it takes is that Microsoft pushes out Silverlight through Windows Update and the penetration is soon as good as Flash. From a developer perspective I fully prefer Silverlight. I can create apps in notepad, I can integrate it with exisiting AJAX-enabled websites, easily communicate between Browser, DOM, JS and Silverlight in a very elegant way. It's simply a bliss for a developer to get stated with and work with. Furthermore I can reuse the experiences I have from .NET. Just because of these facts, it wont be long until we see a lot of silverlight based apps. To me getting stated with flash has always been a barrier. I've only accomplished some very basic stuff, but with silverlight I'm already doing very advanced client/server stuff in very little time. Bottomline: No apps without developers! Many silverlight developers = lower salaries = cheaper applications. Microsoft has always been very good at achieving huge market penetration in the area from consumer to mid-range enterprise solutions, and I'm confident we will soon see the same thing happen for Silverlight. All it takes is that Microsoft pushes out Silverlight through Windows Update and the penetration is soon as good as Flash.
From a developer perspective I fully prefer Silverlight. I can create apps in notepad, I can integrate it with exisiting AJAX-enabled websites, easily communicate between Browser, DOM, JS and Silverlight in a very elegant way. It’s simply a bliss for a developer to get stated with and work with. Furthermore I can reuse the experiences I have from .NET. Just because of these facts, it wont be long until we see a lot of silverlight based apps. To me getting stated with flash has always been a barrier. I’ve only accomplished some very basic stuff, but with silverlight I’m already doing very advanced client/server stuff in very little time.
Bottomline: No apps without developers! Many silverlight developers = lower salaries = cheaper applications. Microsoft has always been very good at achieving huge market penetration in the area from consumer to mid-range enterprise solutions, and I’m confident we will soon see the same thing happen for Silverlight.

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