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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23

SAP and Microsoft are supposedly ganging up on Oracle with a new marketing agreement.  Microsoft agreed to recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning...

0 replies - 1896 views - 11/23/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie

[Also see the first part – the keynote by Steven Sinofsky.] The second part of the keynote was delivered by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President,...

0 replies - 346 views - 11/19/09 by sashag in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 2302 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 2609 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Microsoft's Chris Swenson on Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3

Microsoft recently released Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3. How do these updated products position Microsoft against its RIA competitors, Adobe Flash...

0 replies - 723 views - 08/06/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Silverlight A Flash Competitor Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than...

0 replies - 1836 views - 07/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Silverlight's Fate

While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the RIA world,...

1 replies - 2016 views - 05/02/08 by Shashank Tiwari in Blogs

What Does it Take to Be a Good RIA Platform?

Yesterday, I had a very interesting blog debate with a guy named Martin Beeby. He was arguing that Silverlight would eventually crush Flex because Adobe is...

1 replies - 1689 views - 03/15/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Why AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight & Why It May Be Bad News for Microsoft and Apple

Adobe’s release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point.And that’s...

3 replies - 2658 views - 03/07/08 by Tim Negris in News