Re: [MLUG] mono

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

That is exactly it. This looks like it provides the functionality to run .NET applications on your Linux machine.

 

This can be very useful. More and more windows development is being performed in .NET. Many companies who have applications already builtin .net might not even consider Linux as an alternative because they cannot use these legacy applications. Despite popular consensus, new applications, and especially new enterprise applications are expensive and porting them into some other language like PHP or Python is not going to be an option just so the company can bring Linux online.

 

This mono project might allow companies to make that move to Linux.

 

Will this make a huge difference? I doubt it. Anyone developing in .NET is not likely to move to Linux anyway, but it provides another option if someone wants to.

 

One interesting thing I saw was "Database Connectivity with ADO.NET and MySQL". ADO is a slick application in Windows and if they are able to extend ADO to operate with MySQL that is pretty cool.

 

On 11/8/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Shawn Parker wrote:

> why not invest more heavily in the lamp (linux, apache, postgre, mysql,
> php, perl, python, ruby, etc) stack instead of coming up with a middle
> ground for .net?

I don't know anything about it.  I'm hoping someone will fill me in.  I'm
getting the impression that mono is a way to allow many programs, like
those you just listed, to work together.  Is that not it?

Mike

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