Comments on: Cynergy Announces Silverlight Practice http://danny-t.co.uk/index.php/2007/05/01/cynergy-announces-silverlight-practice/ Web apps fanatic, ramblings on dev for web, mobile and other geeky stuff Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nwebb http://danny-t.co.uk/index.php/2007/05/01/cynergy-announces-silverlight-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-13436 nwebb Sun, 06 May 2007 03:26:44 +0000 http://danny-t.co.uk/index.php/2007/05/01/cynergy-announces-silverlight-practice/#comment-13436 Nice to see some balanced posts on the Silverlight situation Dan. I think it's important for developers to understand that it is the company, *not* the developer who ultimately dictates the technology used, and that this is driven by both client demand, and (in the short term at least) by existing company infrastructure. This certainly has implications for me – I do not have any .Net experience but my employer carries out work for local government and is required to develop using certain Microsoft technologies. In many respects it would make more sense for them to go the Silverlight route. Whether I have any preference or not is largely irrelevant. As a developer who feels a little too pushed to be adding .Net to his ever expanding to-do list right now, I can at least focus my attention on transferable, platform-independent skills whilst still sticking with Flex. Besides, I think competition will be healthy. Nice to see some balanced posts on the Silverlight situation Dan.
I think it’s important for developers to understand that it is the company, *not* the developer who ultimately dictates the technology used, and that this is driven by both client demand, and (in the short term at least) by existing company infrastructure. This certainly has implications for me – I do not have any .Net experience but my employer carries out work for local government and is required to develop using certain Microsoft technologies. In many respects it would make more sense for them to go the Silverlight route.

Whether I have any preference or not is largely irrelevant.
As a developer who feels a little too pushed to be adding .Net to his ever expanding to-do list right now, I can at least focus my attention on transferable, platform-independent skills whilst still sticking with Flex. Besides, I think competition will be healthy.

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