Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 16:55 UTC
Windows developers can now port Visual Basic applications to Linux without modifying their code, using an open source project backed by Novell. The Mono project has built a compiler that lets developers code using Visual Basic inside Visual Studio or other preferred tools environments and run the Visual Basic code on non-Windows platforms without the time and cost of modification.
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I'm not sure he's pro-OpenXML, but you could be right on that. In any case, Miguel relishes the chance to bring Windows interoperability to Linux because that's what the prospective customers are asking for. You have to do everything you can to make the customers happy, even when they don't really want what they think they want. Humor them.
Novell SLED/S is simply not targeted at folks that hate Microsoft's guts and refuse to use their technologies. It's targeted at folks that hate Microsoft's guts but have no practical migration path away from their technologies.
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2005-07-06
De Icaza seems to relish the chance to bring these things to Linux, though i'm not sure why. Maybe he's still hoping for that job at Microsoft on the IE team?
He's pro-OOXML, pro-.Net, pro-everything i'm not.