A key quote from the article,

“A developer who said he had limited experience with Flash also sided with Silverlight. “I just think the integration with .Net is going to be big. I’m a .Net developer. It allows me to jump in [to] Silverlight a lot easier,”

But, but, but, but…

Of course he’d say that, he’s a .Net developer and all the other feedback is positive, why, well lets see they’re asked .Net developers at a Microsoft event, duh!

Does the fact that all the feedback I’ve had from Flash developers saying they don’t see the point in Silverlight mean it’s going to die a death? No.

Can we just face it that, Flash and Silverlight can sit side by side. The next version of Flash is not going to be the death nell for Silverlight as much as Silverlight is going to suddenly convert Flash developers to the cult of M$.

I see Flash and Silverlight sitting in very different areas, but Flex and Silverlight are probably more likely to meet in the business/intranet market. They’re both built on Frameworks, they’re both XML based amongst other things.

It used to be easy to see the difference between a .Net developer and Flash developer. But as the Flash Platform splinters and as Microsoft tries to open up and be more friendly I’m not so sure any more.

Maybe one of the distinctions that will remain is that generally speaking Flash developers are more open to other technologies, they have to be, the swf is not the end of the road. You’ve got the usual MySQL and PHP, then there’s Flash Com/Media Server, RoR, javascript, xml if you want to be an accumplished Flash developer you’ll touch some or all of these.

Microsoft’s .Net framework packages everything up into an ecosystem so that once a developer has learnt .Net they never have to use anything else is that a strength or a weakness?

I think that’s all for now, just some musings…