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Interview: MLB.com on Their Use of Silverlight

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Henry Belmont and Thaniya Keereepart are part of the driving force behind MLB.com for Major League Baseball. Last year they relaunched the site and one of the marquee additions was the ability to watch the games in a Silverlight media player. 

They began working with Silverlight and the Microsoft product team when the technology was in its early alpha release stage.  However, with the website’s back-end written in Java and much of the user interface built with JSP, MLB.com is not your typical candidate for adopting Microsoft’s newest technology for building Rich Internet Apps. 

Learn why they made the decision to choose Silverlight and gain insight from their successful implmentation.

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