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Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future
Talkback Certainly if you happen to be managing crash course trained .Net developers that are "motivated" to deliver rather then to understand underlying issues and thus perhaps you didn't notice that Mono is also out there.
[June 25, 2006, 22:33]
Novell tests .Net on open source
Talkback The download isn't on Ximian's website its on www.go-mono.com
[May 7, 2004, 12:58]
Open source fans try to outflank .Net
News Ximian, a Boston company that works on the Gnome user interface for Linux, is scheduled to announce Monday a software project called "Mono" intended to compete against Microsoft.Net, according to sources familiar with the plan.
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move
News Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Gnome project and a Novell programmer working on Mono, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net software: "As a chess move, it is a fascinating one. Open-source fans have had a mixed reaction to Microsoft's...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language
News But Microsoft isn't the only organisation trying to bring .Net support to other platforms — it will have to compete with the open-source Mono project, which aims to bring .Net support to non-Microsoft operating systems including Unix.
[January 4, 2006, 13:05]
Sun plans open source Java component release
News While .Net lacks Java's wide availability on many different operating systems and processors, Microsoft released enough of the technology as an industry standard that Novell has released an open source version called Mono that runs on Linux.
[August 15, 2006, 9:35]
Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup
News Ximian adopted a more liberal licence for some of its Mono software to create an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net, so that Intel software could be incorporated into the project. Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that...
[February 17, 2003, 8:09]
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open source
News New languages that have shown some successes in recent years — PHP, Python, Perl and Mono, for example — have open source underpinnings. Sun Microsystems took a new open source step last week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to...
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Open-source .Net takes shape
News Builders of the Mono open-source development project released an update on Tuesday that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems. The goal of the Mono Project, spearheaded by open-source desktop...
[December 13, 2002, 7:49]
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft. A number of popular open-source applications, such as the note...
[June 30, 2009, 8:03]
Mono seeks to open up .Net
News To the uninitiated, the basic idea behind the open-source Mono project -- to bring .Net to Linux -- is kind of hard to grasp. And now that Novell has taken over the stewardship of Mono, after acquiring Ximian last year, Mono has the potential to be...
[July 16, 2004, 14:25]
Mono update promises to pull in .NET 2.0
News Version 2 of Mono, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, has been released. Mono is the toolset that was used to create Moonlight, a subset of the project and an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich...
[October 7, 2008, 13:30]
Mono release gives Linux boost to .Net
News The Mono project announced the release of version 1.2 of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework, on Thursday. Novell claims that none of Mono's code infringes any Microsoft patents, and as such the agreement changes...
[November 9, 2006, 12:34]
.Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
News Enterprises can utilise their internal .Net skills to build multi-platform applications using Novell's open-source Mono platform, which should end up making it easier to get the most out of development teams.
[May 7, 2004, 17:15]
Mono Project aims to bring .Net apps to Linux
News Aside from the actual development effort, the Mono Project tools must be built in the open-source community without infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property -- which essentially means that developers must re-engineer the tools based on the...
[October 30, 2001, 10:23]
Microsoft patents may threaten open source
News And much of that concern is being directed toward open-source desktop company Ximian's Mono Project, an open-source initiative to replace part of Microsoft's .Net product line, including a way to run C# programs and the .Net Common Language...
[August 29, 2001, 9:14]
Mono Project releases non-Windows tools
News Novell gained stewardship of Mono when it acquired open-source software company Ximian last year. The Mono Project is intended to bring the ease of use that marks Microsoft's .Net tools to developers creating software for non-Microsoft operating...
[July 1, 2004, 11:40]
Delay hits open-source .Net project
News The first version of the Mono project, which is designed to let developers create .Net applications for Linux and Unix, will be available in the second quarter of 2004, according to Novell, which became the owner of Mono through its acquisition of...
[November 19, 2003, 9:30]
Novell tests .Net on open source
News Novell inherited the Mono project through its acquisition of open-source software maker Ximian last year. The goal of Mono is to allow .Net programmers to build applications that work across Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems.
[May 7, 2004, 8:25]
Delay hits open-source .Net project
Talkback Even better, having found that mono meets most of your needs, but there are some areas you'd like to see working before you start development, the open source nature of the product means that you can actually add those features you need, rather...
[December 4, 2003, 3:01]
