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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.'"

3 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Embrace, extend, extinguish... by paranoidpenguin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is this Microsoft's plan? I'm so sick of stuff like this...

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  2. Race to Linux? by Matarick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought somebody announced for a reward to port Linux to the Xbox 360? I guess I misread the topic.

  3. Forget Software by Walzmyn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I want to see my mom and my wife ported to Linux so I can stop dual booting my machine and only have to keep up the non-profit tech support for one OS.