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Mono & SourceGear Move Forward

Posted by Hemos on from the partnering-together dept.

miguel writes "The Mono project keeps evolving and is quickly becoming a mature platform for running .NET applications on Linux. SourceGear and Ximian have entered into a partnership to make their .NET-based Vault client software available to Linux and Unix users by implementing the missing web services support in Mono. The formal announcement is here and a developer overview is here. OpenLink has also contributed the functionality to turn Wine into a library that Mono is using to implement the System.Windows.Forms namespace. Another recent progress bit is the fact that Mono can run Eclipse with the IKVM Java VM for .NET"

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  1. What do you think they will do? by shibbydude · · Score: 3, Funny

    Popular business plan: Step 1: Design product that runs a proprietary Microsoft system. Step 2: Make it run on Linux, Windows' leading business threat. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit!!! If no one could figure it out, step 3 might be sell the code to (or settle with) Microsoft so that .NET is once again a Windows-only system. At least this would be my business plan.

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  2. This Mono thing is for clever people... by d-Orb · · Score: 2, Funny
    Mono can run Eclipse with the IKVM Java VM for .NET"

    Well, I am pretty sure that that is a fine achievement, but it looks like one of those scary organical molecules to me :-)

  3. Re:Mature? by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Teamwork and recognition does not imply maturity"
    actually mono was mature, stable, 100% compatible and bug-free as soon as the Ximian marketing department said so
    something else the mono team has copied from Microsoft :^)

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