I think there is a lot of hype. Once all the dust settles, this is what I think will happen:
Microsoft will help make Mono even better than it is right now ( add full support for .NET 2.0 and 3.0), and get rid of some of the remaining cross platform issues. Or maybe Microsoft will make their own .Net VM for Linux. Then Microsoft will tell all of the Linux developers, "if you want us to support your app on windows, write it in C#, IronPython or some other officially supported .Net language". That isn't all that groundbreaking to me. Microsoft is pushing .Net a lot. Even their new nex gen/research OS, Singularity, is witten in a .Net language. Novell is the main corperate sponsor of Mono, the Linux implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework. That is why Microsoft struck a deal with them, instead of Redhat, the sponsor of the cygwin project. They probably didn't want to use a unix like layer which cygwin provides. Chris ----- Original Message ---- From: David Kaiser <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 1:22:00 PM Subject: [909linux] Microsoft supports Linux (not a joke) http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/3d1Xk6mH0qpczwqbqLsR4kJ I'm baffled. Why would Microsoft do *anything* to help out a Linux provider. What makes Microsoft even remotely qualified to provide "sales support" for SUSE Linux? The questions go on and on... _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
