Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Nov 2005 19:32 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"We just released Mono 1.1.10, our best release so far. The major feature missing from this release to call it Mono 1.2 is the completion of our Windows.Forms implementation.
In this document I only present the direction of development of the Mono team at Novell; a more comprehensive view of other Mono developments by the Mono community is something that am working on and will post at a later date. I also present how our team's priorities are shifting in response to Novell's own internal use of Mono and external factors like the final release of .NET 2.0."
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RE[4]: Cemented my move to Fedora
by cendrizzi on Fri 18th Nov 2005 21:06
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RE[5]: Cemented my move to Fedora
by segedunum on Sat 19th Nov 2005 01:13
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Bah, What you fail to understand is that .net is already a success on Linux.
.Net is not a success on Linux - and neither is Mono. A photo editor and one or two other pieces of partly finished software just don't count. Plus, they are not contributing to a company like Novell making money.
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Not necessarily.
Yes.
With the eventual arrival of Vista, ..NET programming is going to be the rage on Windows platforms.
I'm afraid you're a bit deluded if you think that is going to translate into success on non-Windows platforms. .Net is a Windows technology, uses exclusively Windows and Microsoft technology and will do so even more. The fact that parts of it might be achievable from a cross platform point of view is irrelevant.
I am looking at a market that exists for Linux vendors which is the Java application server market. There is simply no .Net market for non-Windows systems, and even the Windows one is a bit slow.
But then again, how much usage does Java currently enjoy on Windows platforms? Honestly, I haven't used a Java desktop app yet that I've actually liked. Jedit was alright, but even it reeks of its Java underpinnings.
We're not talking about Windows desktop applications (otherwise what's the point of Mono?), and I'm not even talking about desktop applications. The market is on the server side, and that's where a Linux vendor's bread and butter is. The desktop side is a bonus, and with Eclipse that's what Red Hat look as if they're working on tools-wise, but the Java application server market is their clear aim. That's just one of the reasons why Red Hat is booming and Novell isn't, but if Novell think they're just going to copy Red Hat's lead and it will all fall into place then they're going to be even more disappointed.