eWeek: Mono Playing Catch-Up

“While a 2-year-old project to develop an open-source version of
Microsoft Corp.’s .Net Framework is making progress, it’s still a
long way from prime time.

“The Mono Project incorporates key .Net-compliant components,
including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime just-in-time
compiler and a growing set of class libraries, including ASP.Net
and ADO.Net. But officials at the project’s leader, Ximian Inc.,
said the group is still incorporating new features being added by
Microsoft into the next version of the .Net development platform,
dubbed Whidbey.

“‘Yes, of course it’s late,’ said Miguel de Icaza, chief
technology officer of Ximian, in Boston, and Mono project leader,
at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention here last week. ‘We were
supposed to release the ECMA components, but the project has
grown…'”

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