Kaltura to Add Microsoft Silverlight to its Open Source Online Video Platform

Posted by Derrick on April 15, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Kaltura, Inc., developer of the first open source online video platform announced it will provide full support for Microsoft Silverlight to its existing customers and future prospects.  The Silverlight-based player and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming will be available with Kaltura’s hosted and self-hosted editions.

“Kaltura’s video platform will offer all major video technologies, including Silverlight, Adobe Flash, and HTML5.  The addition of Silverlight enables rich new functionalities and provides greater flexibility to our users,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO.  “Silverlight is a great enhancement to our developer community as it enables developers who are fluent in the Microsoft developer platform to participate and build new applications that provide unique value to Silverlight publishers.”

“Microsoft is excited to see Kaltura invest support for Silverlight and Microsoft developer platform on its open source online video platform,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp.  “As online video development continues to grow, Web developers will be truly benefit from the tools offered by Kaltura.”