Version 1 of Microsoft products have historically been slow, unapologizing in their copycat nature, and hampered by large numbers of major bugs and gaps in functionality.
However, their astronomical cash reserves and relentless commitment to establish market share has almost always led to vastly improved products in version 2 and beyond. So of course, Silverlight is no match for Flex - right now. But if Microsoft sustains its commitment, it's not a question of *if* it could be "almost as good" as Flex - just a matter of when. I don't say this as a criticism of Microsoft (I use several of their products daily and love them), but rather to point out that they are more of a market force than a true software company - and so the relative success of Silverlight (or any other MS offering) is pre-ordained, so long as they decide that's what they want to do - it's independent of the present quality of the actual product. -Peter Demling Lexington, MA --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Claus, > > Yup, so that's why FLEX does have its unique offering vs SilverLight and > once developers & designers unsubscribe from the notion it's a "Flash > Killer" and do more of what you are doing (exploring it's upcoming release) > you'll decide on what you think it's merits are vs aren't. It's early days > yet, so wouldn't worry to much about it folks ;) just keep an open mind > should you want to take it for a test-run post MIX07 :) > > WPF & SilverLight are going to have interesting prospects just like Apollo > and FLEX will have it's own, I think the two will do different things for > different people. Keep fingers in all barrels I'd say :) > > > > On 17 Apr 2007 03:30:22 -0700, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If you read FUD crap, ignore it on both sides and just be opened to the > > > idea that theres yet another channel of delivery in rich interactive > > > applications. > > > > Reading through the Silverlight docs, XAML looks to me like some weird > > kind of microsoftified SVG, spiced up with MP3 and WM codecs. I'm still > > searching but so far i couldn't find anything close to what Flex offers > > (what i found are some barely working and butt ugly component > > experiments). I'd guess that Silverlight will get some video market > > share, but it has a long way to go to enter the RIA market. My 2 centavos. > > > > Cheers, > > Claus. > > > > -- > > claus wahlers > > côdeazur brasil > > http://codeazur.com.br/ > > http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/ > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.mossyblog.com >
