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Re: Mono 2.0 Spreads .Net to Linux and Mac
Posted by: Chris Maxcer 2008-12-07 06:30:21

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For developers who have fallen in love with .Net/C#, but aren't married to running their applications on Windows, the Mono Project aims to let Microsoft .Net-based apps run on Linux and Mac OS X, among several other platforms. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono Project has released Mono 2.0 of its cross-platform, open source .Net development framework. Basically, Mono 2.0 lets users run both client and server applications on Linux, and helps developers figure out which changes they may need to make to their applications for .Net-to-Linux migrations.

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Posted by: enovikoff 2009-04-28 08:43:22 In reply to: Chris Maxcer

As a cloud services provider, we have a few customers successfully using Mono. In addition to the missing .Net components they had to deal with (which didn't seem to bother them much), the bigger problem was that the database coding in their applications was tied to MSSQL and had to be converted to work with a Linux-based open-source database, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL. It is possible to write your code with a database abstraction layer, but if it was originally written to work with MSSQL, the conversion can be onerous. However, each of our customers found it was very worthwhile due to license savings as well as integration with other open-source software on the Linux platform.