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Flash vs Silverlight – past 10 months evolution

silverlight vs flash2With so much talk currently going on about Silverlight at the PDC, I thought it would be interesting to see how the past 10 months has looked in terms of market penetration for Flash and Silverlight. The following snap shots are taken from riastats.com. Looks like Silverlight has gained around 15% marketshare in the past 10 months which is quite...

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Adobe Flex demand outgrowing Silverlight

It can be a bit tricky to see how these two platforms perform against each other in terms of demand, since the word “Flex” is a broad term used in many other job ads than developer jobs and “Silverlight” is a very specific word. Still, after matching both developer and flex/silverlight at Simplyhired,...

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Adobe Flex vs Silverlight, the Morgan Stanley case

With Morgan Stanley choosing Adobe Flex as technology for their trading platform (named Matrix), a debate around these two platforms fired up. Morgan Stanley’s choice is obviously a big win for Adobe as a step into the enterprise software world. Morgan Stanley’s Matrix founder and global director...

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