Add support for different upload services - WCF, etc. Ability to use the RadUpload with a Linux server side. --- feeedback below --- The reason is security and asynchronous implementation + remove the processing to a service instead of the silverlight app. security: Using the filestream attribute in SQL Server 2008 the connection to the database is to be made by windows authentication. Therefor we created a functional windows account that runs the service and is responsible for the connection to the database server. ---/----------