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Little Demand Yet For Silverlight Developers

Posted by kdawson on from the they-can-afford-to-wait dept.

ericatcw writes "At its Mix08 Web development conference, Microsoft said that its Silverlight rich Internet application platform is downloaded and installed an average of 1.5 million times every day; Microsoft has a goal of 200 million installs by midyear. But Silverlight is at the beginning of a long slog towards gaining traction. Computerworld did a quick analysis of job listings at nine popular career sites and found that an average of 41 times more ads mentioned Adobe's Flash than mentioned Silverlight. As expected only 6 months after Silverlight's introduction, the number of programming books carried on Amazon.com was also heavily skewed in favor of Flash."

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  1. kdawson by El+Lobo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    kdawson. What a surprise!

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  2. Re:Why switch? by misleb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Offtopic, but that got me wondering. Who is more evil. Catbert or Dogbert? I'm going to say Dogbert because he seeks to rule world. Catbert seems far less ambitious in his evil.

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