Linux needs to do more for programmers | Linux Today

Linux needs to do more for programmers

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SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 8, 2010

“True, there is the Linux Developer Network, which, when it
began, looked like it would be the Linux equivalent of MSDN, but it
hasn’t lived up to its promise. And, I can’t overlook the Linux
Foundation’s Linux training classes. But, if I’m an ISV and I want
to write software for Linux, I’m still going to need to piece
together a lot of it by myself.

“For example, Red Hat does a fine job of helping an ISV get its
product to market and Novell does well at helping developers to run
their programs on its platforms. Indeed, thanks to Mono, Linux
programmers can write software that will run on both Windows and
Linux.”


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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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