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Novell Presents Mono Roadmap

Posted by timothy on from the icon-shifting dept.

H0ek writes "Seems Mono is still moving along in spite of the Novell purchase. They present a nicely comprehensive roadmap. You can read the official Novell press release if you're into that kind of nonsense. All I can say is, go Miguel! Don't let the Man get you down!"

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  1. So... what's the deal? by msuzio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, is this worth looking into for C# development at this point? Is it complete enough? I know next to nothing about C#, but I wouldn't mind learning it. I mostly do Web/Internet apps, and my flavor of choice at the moment is Java (servlets, not the horror that is EJB).

    I keep hearing about Mono lacking System.Windows.Forms -- is this a big deal? What else might it be missing (and is any of that going to be coming soon, like within 6 months?).

    I have a lot of my developers here asking about C#, and I wouldn't mind exploring it. Our enterprise division is probably going to move towards using it in new products (we mostly sell Windows-based apps), so being able to better work with their products and code might be nice too...

    So, uh... enlighten me.

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  2. "Don't let the man get your down"?? by phaze3000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Novell bought Ximian as much for Mono as anything else. This is a key part of Novell's future, I hardly think they are publishing the roadmap "in spite of the Novell purchase".

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  3. Anyone with some *BSD-specific notes? by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From the Mono FAQ:
    Question 52: What architectures does Mono support?

    Mono today ships with a Just-in-Time compiler for x86-based systems. It is tested regularly on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (with the XP/NT core).

    So okay, does anybody know how well it runs on Dragonfly?
  4. Microsoft does not like Mono or Linux by GreatDrok · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, I know, big surprise.

    A couple of years ago I visited MS in Redmond to see if there was some way my then company could work with MS. We had a very encouraging two hour discussion and I was told that MS would very much like to work with us. I had demo'd our software on a Linux laptop running KDE (so I don't think they noticed it wasn't Windows) and mentioned that as we were a Linux based company we would use Mono to integrate with .NET. The response was "We don't work with Linux companies, I'll get you a cab" and that was that.

    While it is clear that they don't like Linux, I think it is also apparent that they will not condone anyone using Linux/Mono as a development platform instead of Windows/.NET and they will very obviously move to kill it by incompatibility as soon as it shows the slightest chance of being a threat.

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  5. ROTOR updates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does Microsoft update their open source C#/.Net that was initially released on FreeBSD, called ROTOR, along with all the new stuff they put into C#?

    (ROTOR was never meant to provide all services in the commercial .Net platform, but it was supposed to be a complete C# compiler and runtime.)

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