A prospective client recently asked what Molecular’s opinion was on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology.  Specifically, they were curious if they should seriously consider using Silverlight (over Adobe’s Flash/Flex platform) for building their future rich Internet applications.   This is a question that is bound to be asked more and more by our clients in the near future.  At that time Silverlight was (and still is) in beta and lacked the necessary RIA capabilities the client required.   However, the latest version of Silverlight is getting very close to an official release.  When this happens, it will provide application designers and developers the rich Internet features that are necessary to build the next generation of sophisticated web applications.
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