Re:Does Silverlight matter?
by codeLove on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @06:02AM
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Adobe Flash and other Adobe products are mostly developed in India. But the number of hardcore Actionscript developers in India is very small.
I dont really know if the Indian R&D facility of Microsoft contributes to .Net development , but one thing i know is that, practically every Indian computer engineer use .NET
This is where SilverLight matters. Microsoft's development tools are already very popular among some of the most brilliant [and cost effective], software engineers in the world.Imagine all the kind of applications these developers can churn out. If this happens, there will be a choice of applications for endusers to play around with on SilverLight .In such a scenario, users will be forced to install Silverlight , and SilverLight could get popular easily.
Basically Microsoft could leverage on all these developers, and bring in a real competition to Adobe Flash.
If the above said situation doesnt happen,Silverlight will probably die.
Me, for some reason, is not going to try SilverLight anytime soon.
I dont really know if the Indian R&D facility of Microsoft contributes to .Net development , but one thing i know is that, practically every Indian computer engineer use .NET
This is where SilverLight matters. Microsoft's development tools are already very popular among some of the most brilliant [and cost effective], software engineers in the world.Imagine all the kind of applications these developers can churn out. If this happens, there will be a choice of applications for endusers to play around with on SilverLight .In such a scenario, users will be forced to install Silverlight , and SilverLight could get popular easily.
Basically Microsoft could leverage on all these developers, and bring in a real competition to Adobe Flash.
If the above said situation doesnt happen,Silverlight will probably die.
Me, for some reason, is not going to try SilverLight anytime soon.