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Race to Linux Project Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hurry-up-and-blur-the-lines-so-we-can-have-a-choice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Internetnews.com The Race to Linux project was announced Wednesday at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The challenge: port an existing ASP.NET application to Linux using any cross-platform tool of choice, including Mono, Grasshopper and PHP. (Mainsoft offers tools that let Visual Studio users build applications that run natively in the Unix, J2EE and Linux environments.) Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft stated: 'Linux is too big and ubiquitous to ignore.'"

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  1. Don't knot your knickers by Gribflex · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Before you get your knickers in a knot, I sugest that you read the article.

    No, MainSoft is not a typo for Microsoft; MainSoft is an independent software company that makes a tool that allows for cross-platform development.

    During the PDC, which was organized by Microsoft, one of the exhibitors (mainsoft) announced this contest which was intended to show off their products.

    This is not an attempt by Microsoft to do any kind of cross-platform development.

    To the best of my knowledge, neither of the groups organizing the event (MainSoft and CodeProject) are owned in whole, or in part, by Microsoft.

    If you read the disclaimer on CodeProject, you will find the following groups barred from the contest:

    • The Code Project
    • Mainsoft Corporation
    • Novell
    • Zend
    • Macromedia


    Microsoft Employees are not on this list. I really don't think that Microsoft has a great deal to do with this event.