Silverlight, Apollo... Lock In?

vendor lockin can be bad, sooner or later

a summary of mark pilgrim's silly season

mark pilgrim goes on a characteristically cynical rant against new vendor-specific 'ria' platforms (silverlight from microsoft, and apollo from adobe). (ria means 'rich internet application')

Although it's quite a short rant, who has time for prose? Here's the cartoon version:

vendor lockin can be bad, sooner or later

(i may have left out some of his points)

(p.s. personally, i'm not too worried about 'lock-in'. Should I be?)

 

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