On Silverlight vs Flex – II

Popularity of my last post on ‘Silverlight vs. Flex’ prompted me to write more on it, or rather research more on the subject. Bit of googling revealed this comparison is hot in blogosphere and lots of articles and blog posts have already been written and published. This led me to idea of creating a collection of writings to provide reader with good content links at one place. So here we go:

What is Silverlight?

http://www,silverlight.net/

What is Flex?

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex

Pro-Flex Opinions
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/m-silverlight-vs-adobe-flash-player.php
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9077660
http://sudhahariharan.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/silverlight-flex-a-comparative-study/
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/adobe-flex-beats-silverlight-every-time-19197

Pro-Silverlight Opinions
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/
http://www.thewayithink.co.uk/post/Why-Silverlight-is-nailing-Flex.aspx

Silverligth VS. Flex — Feature Comparison
http://extremeblue.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/flex-vs-silverlight-my-views/

http://fahimilyas.blogspot.com/2008/05/road-to-silverlight-part-1.html

Silverlight vs. Flex: See what Google Trends / Google Fight suggest who is winning?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=flex%2Csilverlight&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Silverlight&word2=Flex

Open Discussion on Silverlight vs. Flex

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=371352
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/634/1076.aspx

Tutorial of Silverlight and Flex
http://www.insideria.com/2008/02/hello-flex-silverlight-and-jav.html

Silverlight & Flex — Co-existence
http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/08/20/communicate-between-flex-and-silverlight-using-javascript/

Note: Above are just few links from many others valuable writings available over the web, you are most welcome to add more links / your opinions on the topic. Thanks

On Silverlight vs. Flex

In this web 2.0 world where microsoft-yahoo deal to dominate web is talk of the day, one thing that cannot hide from limelight is war between techie tools and languages needed to produce web stuff. AJAX, PHP, JavaScript, Flash are all players of the field, while Flex and Silverlight new ones. Well Flex is not that new, however arrival of Silverlight has put old software companies (Microsoft vs. Adobe) rivalry game a new blood. Following article discusses this with author bidding on Microsoft for winning the game, do read his arguments and also have a look at comments of Adobe-supporting guys. Happy reading

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2008/02/the-silverlight.html