Come one where's this guy came from to write up this article at ColdFusion-Syscon publisher network.
Some quotes of his article.
3. Silverlight 2.0. Despite being called 2.0, this is what we're thinking of as the first real version of Silverlight. It contains data binding, template support, resource dictionaries, multiple modes of networking support including sockets, the ability to do cross-domain networking (not trivial, but still do-able), and more. I'm sure some people were excited about Python and Ruby support in Silverlight 2.0, but I really was focused on Silverlight 2.0 with C#.
How many times We have to say Flex supports with no glues with .Net framework but ( Python, RoR, C#.net,J#.net,VB.net,javascript,asp.Net,PHP, ColdFusion, Earlang,Java...)
Dude, we already have that in capabilites from Flex 2.0 and a lot more coming to Flash Player 10. Keep in mind that sockets connections are not made by Flex, but from Flash Player.
Why theses M$ consultants still pushes up others developers to say some kind of lie? Flash Player was installed by users when they request not inside Windows Auto-update as microsoft is comming doing.
For sure it was very immature and as same feedback he gave about flex decreasing the image of Flex, keep in mind Flex is an open driver way for RIA application and we have TRUE customers case sucess take a look dude at www.flex.org/showcases. And than you will see what they are saying and not premessing what should they say.
Buying Y! doesn't make Silverlight bigger or even better, you have to think about that Other massives video sites contents like youtube,metacafe,eggs,msn uses Flash Player than Silverlight. Be very true when you write up something about a technology you don't know.
I don't know any kind of XAML language and how silverlight works, but the concept and technology overview gave me that. I can only say that about a technology, but I don't lie.
JD, I would like to sleep without read this article,but as you saw before Microsoft dude's like to shot using others gun power.
