Compare and contrast: Flash and Silverlight

It's not often that I get to do podcasts on topics I actually have vested interest in (i.e. multimedia applications). But this week, I talked with Christopher Smith, president of the Aquent Graphics Institute, about the differences between the entrenched Flash and the upstart (as much as you can call Microsoft upstart) Silverlight. AGI teaches a number of classes on the various Adobe products so you'd think Smith would be a little bias in that direction. You'd be wrong:

When it comes to multimedia here at Network World, particularly video, we're heavily invested in Brightcove, so we'll be on Flash for the foreseeable future.