title: Adobe Flex vs Silverlight
body: <p>This is not a pure technical question, but I believe answers will help the RIA community.</p>
  
  <p>We are a software development company working on development of a stock trading product. We chose to use Adobe Flex (in mid of 2008) due to its browser penetration and its maturity relative to Silverlight. We already developed the system, and we are quite happy with it.  </p>
  
  <p>Now we are planning to launch the second version of our product, and it will feature a much more advanced user interface -- basically a framework of dockable windows and panes as in Visual Studio 2005 and onward, etc. We searched on the internet and found that the market of 3rd party components for Adobe Flex is still very small, but for Microsoft's Silverlight there are many advanced 3rd party components available e.g. data grids, docking frameworks, etc.  </p>
  
  <p>When can we expect the same type of components in Adobe Flex? What do experts think if we develop to the new version of Silverlight (Expertise in Adobe Flex vs. Silverlight is not an issue at the moment, assuming we have to develop everything from scratch). </p>
  
  <p>The launch of next version is expected to be in mid 2010. Any feedback regarding this is highly appreciated.  </p>