MLB.com drops Silverlight and use Adobe Flash
After being a one of the most Silverlight famous customers. MLB Advanced Media said this Monday that it will move to use Flash Platform to deal with the both live and on-demond video services starting from the next year.
The MLB will put more than 1.5 million subscibers since 2003 in the hand of Adobe technology and its history as one of the largest video service company on the web.
“Microsoft has appreciated the partnership of MLB.com,” said Microsoft Vice President Scott Guthrie. “Microsoft continues to be very pleased with the success of Silverlight. We have a great ecosystem that includes more than 150 partners.”
Adobe Flash Player is more powerful video platform and installed in more than %98 of the world computers.
“Flash provides a TV-like experience. You turn it on and it works,” said Bob Bowman, president and CEO of MLBAM. “We want it to be flexible so we can add features…and it’s got to be scalable. We are the largest server of live entertainment in the country. Whether we are serving 20,000 for one game or 250,000 for another game, it’s got to be scalable over periods of time like nothing else.”
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