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Unless I am not seeing a big chunk of the internet...untrue...

Even taking the DZone search as a metric (and I know it's never going to be conclusive)

Flex: 773 results
Silverlight: 553 results

Of course it's not conclusive, it's not even help full. Flex is a real word where as silverlight isn't. So flex will always win out.

Just have a look at developer resourses for silverlight compared to Flex.

Flex is getting outplayed in all areas.

Just to counter your Stat:

Google:
"Microsoft Silverlight" - 1,920,000
"Adobe Flex" 1,320,000

(BTW - I'm aware that my above stat proves absolutly nothing)

I did some trending on google, it proves my point a little better:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22Adobe+Flex%22%2C+%22Microsoft+silverlight%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

The article is based on one thing: "flash users don't want to become flex programmers". The thing is, most people using Flex don't come from a Flash background. In my experience, that's even very rare.
Flex is also officially supported on GNU/Linux, unlike Silverlight/Moonlight - which is a major advantage. Also, to use Silverlight it seems like you should use .NET at the back-end - not true for Flex: use .NET, Java, PHP, whatever you want.

Hey LudoA

Silverlight is supported on Linux, due to the work by Mono.

You don't need to use .net as a backend, you can also use whatever you want.

So who does develop flex applications? If Microsoft Developers and Flash developers aren't using it as you suggest?
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Because if it's Java developers... The I guess we better prepare ourselves for some UGLY web applications.

I had to login just to vote this one down. Totally stupid propaganda, baseless arguments. Give me a break man.

Yea I logged in to do the same. This blog post made me roll my eyes.

Does it matter?

Desperate times bring out desperate postings - MIX didn't give silverlight much of media boost. Still not much of the mainstream paying it any attention. Next thing you know there will end up being political boycotts of the summer olympics and even that deal will go sour. What's a boring, has-been software company to do when it has a second rate, me too product?

Another case of, I don't know the technology but I love to talk about it. I had to vote this one down too as it's ridiculous propaganda for M$.

Flex hasn't taken off? I must have been dreaming about all those past pay checks. So ebay, nasdaq, youtube, sap, mtv, etrade,ibm, so on and so forth, all using Flash, Flex and Air for their RIA's must not have heard about silverlight? Or maybe they just think Adobe can do it better.

By the way, the Silverlight FAQ links on ms.com doesn't work in Firefox http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/faq.aspx Someone might want to point that out to Mr. Gates.

No doubt silverlight will certainly take it's chunk of the marketshare because, lets face it, M$ will force someone to use it :-) They couldn't buy Macromedia years ago, so years and years later they come up with silverlight as the "Flash/Flex killer".

I'm not worried about M$ "killing" the Flash player arena, wait, I should say that again because it sounds funny as hell! C# didnt kill Java did it? Xbox didn't kill PlayStation...the list goes on.

Most of Flex's developer base is Java developers and yes, us old school Flash DEVELOPERS (designers use timeline animations, developers use CLASSES on one frame in Flash - read up on google) who not only found Flex insanely easy to pick up, but are making a killing with the job market. Not taking off?? Try google, dice, indeed, monster...come on man.