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Are we going backwards?
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02/12/2009 15:39:30
John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
 
 
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02/12/2009 15:24:17
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ASP.NET
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01436966
Message ID:
01437351
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>>>It took 11 years to update FORTRAN from FORTRAN 66 to FORTRAN 77. It takes Microsoft 3 months to update Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4. Such is progress and the acceleration of life.
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>>>Pertti
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>>Don't worry, our clients pay between 5-15 million a year in licensing/support fees to use our software and we are the market leader both here in the US and gaining momentum in the European market.
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>>There is a reason for the accelerated release schedule for Silverlight. When it was originally released, you couldn't do anything other than a media player with it. Tehre was such an outcry for useful LOB app tools that they caved and began adding capabilities to it. There have been a few interesting blog posts recently talking about the convergence of silverlight and wpf into a single code base. You'll probably see it slow down after the next 1 or two releases. We have a rich tool now for building LOB apps.
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>Sounds amazing. Are you using RIA for this, and if so do you see adequate performance? There has been some criticism about slow speeds with RIA.


No. We are constrined from using beta or no-go license software. We just upgraded to silverlight 3 when it was officially released.
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