Little Demand Yet For Silverlight Developers

ericatcw writes "At its Mix08 Web development conference, Microsoft said that its Silverlight rich Internet application platform is downloaded and installed an average of 1.5 million times every day; Microsoft has a goal of 200 million installs by midyear. But Silverlight is at the beginning of a long slog towards gaining traction. Computerworld did a quick analysis of job listings at nine popular career sites and found that an average of 41 times more ads mentioned Adobe's Flash than mentioned Silverlight. As expected only 6 months after Silverlight's introduction, the number of programming books carried on Amazon.com was also heavily skewed in favor of Flash."

Re:Why switch?

[TheSpoom]

Wanted: Experienced Silverlight Developer, must have 3+ yrs experience even though the product itself has been out less than a year.

Common enough on job boards anyway. ;^)

In other news..

[Rob T Firefly]

..there seems to be little demand for the programming language I invented the other day while I had the flu, and a frightening lack of instructional books on Amazon for it. That's a real shame, because after some chicken soup and a good night's sleep I no longer remember how the goddamned thing works, and was really looking forward to cookbooking it.

Re:Incorrect headline

[Renderer of Evil]

I can spin too:

Supply Outstrips Demand for Silverlight
Undownloaded Installers Prove Problematic for Redmond Giant

Re:In other news..

[Anonymous Coward]

..there seems to be little demand for the programming language I invented the other day while I had the flu, and a frightening lack of instructional books on Amazon for it. That's a real shame, because after some chicken soup and a good night's sleep I no longer remember how the goddamned thing works, and was really looking forward to cookbooking it.

Sounds like ideal material for an Ecma fast-track standard.

Re:Why switch?

[sm62704]

This Dilbert cartoon [dilbert.com] and this Dilbert cartoon [dilbert.com] are the perfect illustrations for your post. Look at those links in order, one follows the other.

"Candidate must have an IQ of 300, two centuries of Unix experience and a track record of wining Nobel prizes."

Re:Why switch?

[Tablizer]

Who is more evil. Catbert or Dogbert?

Which uses emacs and which uses vi?
     

Re:.net

[initdeep]

noooo....
not possibly

not on /.

they never groupthink here......

Re:1.5 million times every day ?

[bvankuik]

I did a fresh install of Windows XP last night (for a client)

Suuuure... last night I lighted a smoke -- for a friend, of course! ;-) I also pretasted his whiskey, just to make sure it was alright ;-)