Will Silverlight on the iPhone boost acceptance by the business community?

Tim Marman has written an interesting piece over at Loosely Coupled.

He shares his perspective on Apples recent announcement to support Exchange ActiveSync on the iPhone and Silverlights role in it’s acceptance by the businesses community.

Flash is nearly universally available on the desktop, so it makes a lot of sense for Internet developers to choose that over Silverlight - but those numbers are wholly irrelevant to the enterprise developer. This is precisely the reason we were able to do AJAX back in 1999, even if it wasn’t ready for an Internet deployment.