“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)…”