Those who like .NET may find themselves lamenting, "I still have to deploy
applications on the Windows operating system. I am still locked to one vendor
- Microsoft." If this sounds like you, Ximian's Mono project might be the
answer. The Mono project was started in July 2001 by Miguel de Icaza,
cofounder of Ximian, with the aim of bringing the Common Language
Infrastructure platform to free systems.
Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It has
a compiler for C#, an ECMA-compatible runtime engine for the Common Language
Infrastructure, and class libraries. Mono implements various technologies
developed by Microsoft that have now been submitted to the ECMA for
standardization. The Mono project enables building and deploying
cross-platform .NET applications. For example, a solution created using C#
can be executed in Windows 2000 and ... (more)