“At Microsoft’s Tech-Ed event in Barcelona last week, Novell
released version 1.2 of Mono, its open-source, cross-platform
implementation of Microsoft’s .Net Framework. Miguel de Icaza, vice
president of product technology at Novell and Mono’s prime mover,
spoke to around 100 developers in an after-hours meeting. He
demonstrated how a Windows application can be created in
Microsoft’s Visual Studio, and then copied and run on Linux, with
binary as well as source code compatibility. Several other
platforms including Mac OS X are also supported.“The purpose of Mono is to enable developers to migrate Windows
applications…”
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