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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. 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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  2. I knew it! by Arandir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For almost two years now I have been subjected to the religious proselityzing of the .NET cult. "It's platform neutral," they said. "It will run on Linux," they said. "Just trust Miguel and you will be saved," they said. But now they say they will use Wine. What a crock of shit! If .NET is crossplatform then so is MS Word!

    I see their fiendish plot now. When every application is a .NET application, and Linux is a merely bootloader for Wine, then there will no longer be a need for Linux.

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