ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup--A Renaissance in Cupertino

"Last week we observed the latest release of the Mono project, hoping that the capability to build .NET applications would improve the lot of enterprise developers unready to abandon their Unix or Linux roots.

"There's much about Mono that's worthy of celebration: The almost coy way in which Microsoft fronted .NET as a cross-platform tool seemed to establish Redmond as the de facto center of innovation in the enterprise computing world, and it seemed as if it might be another attempt to dig an early grave for Unix. The development community that formed around Mono has made a set of tools that will, if nothing else, force Microsoft to live with its words (until it can figure out a way to break something in a way that damages Mono)..."

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