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October 29, 2008
RIAs with Microsoft and Adobe
Josh Holmes is a friend of mine who works at Microsoft as an RIA Evangelist. Basically, his job is to help people architect RIAs using various technologies, with Silverlight being at the core of that. Recently Josh did a long trip to Europe, during which time he gave a talk with James Ward of Adobe on how to architect an RIA.
What’s interesting about this is that Josh is an evangelist for Microsoft, and James is an evangelist for Adobe. The two companies are battling for RIA dominance with Silverlight and Flex, respectively. If you talk to either Josh or James individually, they will definitely try to convince you that their technology is the one to use. However, underlying that is that the both are passionate about helping developers architect their RIAs using best practices so that they provide the best experience possible.
You can see the post here, including the slide deck and detailed write-up. Highly recommended read.
Posted by eburke at October 29, 2008 1:38 PM
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