- Posted by christhi on January 27, 2009
A great article just got posted Tuesday on IT Business Net by Matthew David titled, “Microsoft’s Silverlight Tightens the Screws on Adobe’s Flash?” The story highlights three different areas where he perceives Silverlight has advantages over Flash, including:
ü Microsoft’s offering of a full plate of developer tools to be used in conjunction with Silverlight;
ü Silverlight was built for devices and should hit Mobile in 2009, and
ü Microsoft has a more sound business foundation than Adobe.
In the article, David states, “A weakness of Adobe Flash is its inability to easily create complex solutions, test the solutions and manage the code used in the development process.” As a result, Microsoft has an advantage over Adobe because of its developer tools especially those around ALM, meaning Silverlight developers can use other programs, such as Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Team Suite, to seamlessly create applications in a very productive way. On the Mobile front, David states, “Silverlight as a technology has been developed for deployment to many different platforms. In contrast, Adobe is spending millions retrofitting Flash to work on the ultra-conservative CPU’s found in even the most powerful mobile phones.” He predicts that because Silverlight was created with the ability to run across several platforms, 2009 will usher in Silverlight for Mobile operating systems and leave Flash behind.
Microsoft’s SilverLight tightens the screws on Adobe Flash?ITBusinessNet
January 20, 2009; by Matthew David
http://softwaredev.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=630745