Silverlight is aimed at creating Rich Internet Applications. It's more of an alternative to AJAX than to Flash because, while Flash can be used to create RIAs, no one does.
You probably know all of this but for clarity sake.. While you're right saying that bare Flash isn't used to create RIAs, it is possible to create a RIA with it if one would use Flex, which is a RIA framework built on top of Flash. In my personal experience, I've seen more RIAs created using Flex than Silverlight. That might not be the case (would be interesting to see numbers) but certainly done and rolling. Reading your post, I have the feeling you think that adobe has no support for building a RIA using Flash.
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Silverlight is aimed at creating Rich Internet Applications. It's more of an alternative to AJAX than to Flash because, while Flash can be used to create RIAs, no one does.
You probably know all of this but for clarity sake.. While you're right saying that bare Flash isn't used to create RIAs, it is possible to create a RIA with it if one would use Flex, which is a RIA framework built on top of Flash. In my personal experience, I've seen more RIAs created using Flex than Silverlight. That might not be the case (would be interesting to see numbers) but certainly done and rolling. Reading your post, I have the feeling you think that adobe has no support for building a RIA using Flash.