>>>>>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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>>>>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.
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>>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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>Sounds familiar :-)
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>I just thought that since your release is over a year away, you might actually want to use beta stuff at this point to be on top of the curve when you finally release.

We're a year into development, we have to release on 1 April, so we have about 4 months left