"What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't"
SilverLight is truly multithreaded and allows you to code in the same language on both client and server side. Among all RIAs, only SilverLight and JavaFX are multithreaded. Flash and Javascript are not despite all the hype.
With SilverLight, you use C#, VB, Python, Ruby and maybe more on both client side and server side, which is huge in terms of the low cost of development, maintenance, evolve and so on. With the other RIAs, it's client side running one language and server side running another, which creates unnecessary hassle no developer likes.
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