Here is an interesting article on the relationship between the Mono project and Microsoft’s .NET strategy.
Miguel de Icaza responded well to that story, but I also have something to add. If Microsoft lets Mono grow to the point where Linux depends on it, and then destroys it, this helps Sun immensely. Sun can come in a and say “see! we told you so! Use Java! We support Linux and we won’t yank it away from you!”
I recently finished a project using ASP.NET for work and was very impressed with C# and .NET. What impressed me more was that I was able to take my project and deploy it on my Linux box at home on Mono’s ASP.NET setver and it just works. I’m going to probably use .NET quite a bit in the future, but if and only if it works on Linux and Mac OS X as well.
Last year, I was at a get-together called Breakfast w/ Bill. The crowd was allowed to ask Bill questions. One person asked “What about Mono?” Bill pretended not to be aware of its existence. A good indication that your prediction (and Sun’s) is in the equation.
By the way, how is support for .NET on Macs? I don’t hear much.
Left by Randy Charles Morin on October 14th, 2003