Novell Presents Mono Roadmap

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!"

Comments

"Don't let the man get your down"??

[phaze3000]

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".

Anyone with some *BSD-specific notes?

[puff the barbarian]

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?

Microsoft does not like Mono or Linux

[GreatDrok]

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.