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I have the same arguments for/against openlazslo, that I have for/against Flash, period, pretty much the same arguments I used to have for/against Javascript before some level of standardization happened.

Pro: Very intriguing, very slick, has great potential, can do a substantial amount of things you can't easily do otherwise.
Con: Unstandardized, poorly documented, "deprecation creep", changing API ver to ver, mediocre backwards support.

Now, give everything the same growth as Javascript has done since the IE v Netscape troubles, and you'll end up with a very nice little package, like the difference between PHP3 and PHP4 and 5.

The problem I have with this article is that he only talked to flash developers and he didn't talk to java developers. I don't really think he even used openlaszlo, which makes for a poor article. If you're going to diss something, atleast be somewhat compentent in using it and have some relevant experience with what you're talking about instead of just basing everything on heresay.

I totally agree with cha0sth30ry, the author never used OpenLaszlo (or so it seems) and of course Flash developers don't like OpenLaszlo. It's like asking a mac-zealot what he thinks about windows.

I'm glad someone from OpenLaszlo responded.

It's true, I've never used OpenLaszlo for a client project, though I have used it for lab work. Overall I have a positive impression of OpenLaszlo and have experimented with Legals PR1-4 (though there wasn't really enough DHTML to be interesting in PR1 and PR2).