“Turnabout is fair play, and it is refreshing to see that IBM is beginning to understand that it needs a strategy to try to bring the 100000 partners who write code for Microsoft’s Windows platform onto all of its eServer platforms – not just xSeries and BladeCenter servers that run Windows natively on Intel and AMD processors. For a decade, software vendors have been porting their OS/400, AIX, and MVS applications to Windows, or creating whole new application suites that compete against software developed for those platforms. Now, IBM wants to turn the tables on the Windows ecosystem, and it is enlisting the support of Mainsoft to do this.”
This could be big; if the buisnesssoftware ecosystem turns into a Linux/Solaris+java ecosystem, the homesoftware ecosystem could similarly turn about.
I’m curious if this could lead Microsoft to revoke it’s Windows Source license to Mainsoft.
Edited 2006-01-22 14:16
The day is sad when you realize that IBM and Mainsoft are making a lot more money on Mono than Novell does and no or little credit goes to the Mono team.
To say that little or no credit goes to the Mono team from Mainsoft is entirely untrue. Anybody who has seen a presentation from Mainsoft that I, or anyone else has given will know that Mono is heavily credited and promoted by us. Please also take a look at our developer zone:
http://dev.mainsoft.com/
Mono is right there on the home page.
We also provide a page, instructions, QA etc. to our users on how they can contribute back to the vibrant Mono community:
http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39
If you’ve attended any of our Webcasts around interoperability, migration or porting, you will have heard and seen how we credit Mono extensively.
Mainsoft are a big fan of Mono, and have always made it very clear that we use Mono and that we contribute *extensively* to Mono. I personally am a big fan of Mono, and have built many applications on it. I would also refer the readers to the ‘Race to Linux’ competition that was run late last year, and how it was used as a platform to show what can be done with Mono, and Mono-based products.
We all have the same goal: to promote open systems and freedom of OS choice. That’s why an open source implementation of the functionality provided by the namespaces in the .NET framework is a shared interest and is for the benefit of all.