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April 14, 2008
.NET devs as your competitors?
.NET devs as your competitors? I would have left this as a comment at Don Burnett's blog, but it requires Google membership. Don riffs off of a March appraisal of Microsoft's beta Silverlight browser plugin from Jens Brynildsen, and touches a number of points, but the one that stood out for me was "The .Net Programming Community is now your competition." I'm not sure... I read their forums and blogposts, and see distinct differences between the .Net community and the Flash-oriented communities. I don't think the two groups of people would start similar types of projects. Most of the .NET developers I know of are in constrained environments, and don't deliver to the open web. Flash, Flex and AIR people grew up with delivering to diverse audiences. I see differences between the two groups of people. You might compete with a .NET staff if you develop for an intranet, but do .NET-style workgroups have what it takes to excite the audiences on the open web? Open question, from what I've seen so far. You have any other thoughts on this...?
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 14, 2008 3:34 PM