Re: [www-vrml] Fw: [Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in realbusiness?

[drfrog <drfrog@telus.net>]

i could find the answer to this question:

is a developer gonna be able to write code under mono and it will work
under .net or vice versa?

i really do hate righting the same code twice, or more



On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 07:45, George Birbilis wrote:
> since there was recently a concern phrased on the list from Clayton that
> mono (.NET port to Linux/Unix/MacOS-X etc.) has ceased development, read-on
> below:
> 
> From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel -at- ximian.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 7:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in
> realbusiness?
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > > Mono 1.0 was shipped awhile ago, and I'm really excited
> > > about that... but now the natural question is:
> > >
> > >   "Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?"
> >
> > Like others have said as follow up replies to your post, it depends on
> > your needs and your comfort level.  At this point Mono is a subset of
> > the .NET Framework 1.1 (see the release notes for the details on what is
> > and is not supported).
> >
> > To some people what we have today is enough to start building
> > application, to some to start prototyping and to some to build
> > proof-of-concept applications.
> >
> > Some areas of Mono are more evolved than others: those that have
> > received the most use are likely going to as good (and in some cases
> > better) than the equivalent in .NET.  Those areas that have received
> > little attention or are seldom used might still have bugs.
> >
> > Think of Mono 1.0 as Linux 1.0: it is the first release that we felt
> > that we could support and that we could guarantee backwards API
> > compatibility and we would support in an ongoing basis while we moved
> > our development on the new components of Mono.
> >
> > >   "Will Novell provide support, documentation, etc.?"
> > >   "If yes, by when?"
> >
> > Novell does offer commercial support for Mono users, you can contact
> > Erik Dasque (edasque@ximian.com) or your favorite Novell channel to ask
> > for the pricing of technical support or services around Mono.
> >
> > In the past users of Mono that needed features not implemented in Mono
> > have funded the efforts to get these things in the runtime (the MacOS
> > port, web services, the http stack and more were funded by support
> > contracts).
> >
> > Of course, you do not have to pay Novell to get support, Mono has today
> > a quite vibrant community and third party consultants that have offered
> > their help and services in the past to individuals that need help.
> > Other folks have provided some anecdotal evidence about this in the
> > follow up thread.
> >
> > > Behind MS .NET there is a huge development team,
> > > support, documentation, and continuity... and I
> > > think Novell should offer the same, but till now
> > > I don't see anything in that way.
> >
> > We certainly do not have a `huge' development team inside Novell.
> > Although Novell is steering the direction of the project and funding
> > most of the work, Mono is very much a full open source project with
> > multiple individuals and companies contributing.
> >
> > >From the Novell side there are more than 20 developers working full time
> > on Mono and many more internal Novell users for it.  Today we have more
> > than 300 open CVS accounts for external contributors.
> >
> > > You guys at Novell, could you tell us something more
> > > about your plans to push Mono into the market as an
> > > effective MS .NET alternative?
> >
> > What kind of information are you looking for?
> >
> > Miguel
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mono-list maillist  -  Mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
> >
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