"Silverlight 2.0 is more than just an RIA technology and it is WAY more than just some competitor to Flash and Flex. Silverlight is, IMHO, THE future application development technology for Microsoft's Cloud OS / cloud services. As a result, I think developers who might've been curious about Silverlight before should be looking into it more seriously now if they've got the time.

Mark my words, in as little as 2 years, Silverlight will be a key component in how we build our applications"

Check out the rest of the article, because there are some good points.

Ian