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More Than an Open Source Curiosity

"More Than an Open Source Curiosity"
CNet (07/15/04); LaMonica, Martin
Mono version 1.0 has begun shipping, enabling developers to take advantage
of Microsoft's .Net development platform to write programs for Linux and
other operating systems. The open-source Mono is basically a port of .Net's
code, which has been submitted to the Ecma International standards body, and
Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza says the three years it took to bring
Mono to fruition has left the project 18 months behind the official .Net,
but that the technology is still a very attractive alternative for
developers. Novell, which acquired de Icaza's Ximian and the stewardship of
Mono last year, is standardizing on Mono as its internal development
platform because it supports Windows, Linux, and the Mac OS with the same
tool base, and lets developers avoid platform-specific details. De Icaza
says Mono is late to market compared to .Net because it is the nature of
open-source software to respond to need rather than generate it; the Mono
team, however, is already working on version 2.0 features that will
incorporate Microsoft's C# 2.0, for example. Unlike .Net, Microsoft has not
yet defined its Longhorn technology, so Novell cannot do much for the Linux
community in terms of making compatible software, but Novell's iFolder does
do many of the same data synchronization and backup tasks that Longhorn will
include. The Mono project is trying to avoid Microsoft's stable of at least
30,000 patents and will remove any infringing code upon notification, says
de Icaza; he is certain the idea of a multi-language virtual machine such as
.Net is already covered under prior art, specifically a failed Open Software
Foundation development. De Icaza says J2EE has become too difficult to use
for smaller software enterprises, and that the Mono project conducted a
survey where developers said J2EE was 25 percent less efficient than
Microsoft's ASP.Net.
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