- http://www.flex888.com/496/will-flex-survives-the-ymicrosoft-marriage.html
- Who owns the data and data distribution channels rules. Google bought Youtube for just that reason. For Microsoft, they want the channels made of Microsoft too, only because it happens it's still a software company too.
- Let's don't stop from here. Talking about business, I don't think either Flex or Silverlight alone is making money for their respective owners. The money resides at server side. The Enterprise RIA is the ultimate battle ground. That's where Adobe should be worried and it's where will determine how Flash based technologies (Flex, AIR, Lite, etc) will evolve towards bad or good direction. I don't think Adobe will ever be able to challenge Microsoft at server side in the conventional software development platform way. If you look at the silverlight from the whole Microsoft development stack perspective, it's quite a small subset. So, how Adobe deals with its technologies such LifeCycle DS will be very critical. "Can't beat it, Open source it" is a strategy widely used in the software industry nowaday. Adobe went that route and has been successfully with Flex. Therefore, I can see there will be more open in the RIA world down the road, which is good to developers.
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