Contents tagged with Linux
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Moonlight (AKA Silverlight on Linux) Release Schedule Update
Fresh on the heals of the Silverlight 2.0 announcements, Miguel de Icaza of Novel has some of his own:
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Silverlight on Linux Already
"The open-source Mono project will show off an early version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in running on Linux later this week.
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Silverlight on Linux
Ryan Paul is claiming over on arstechnica that Miguel (aka. the mono guy) is planning on bringing Silverlight to Linux:
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Open Source: It Costs Too Much
Our startup honestly wanted to use OSS products. We do not want to spend time for any OSS bug fixing so our main requirement was -official support for all OSS products-. We thought were prepared to pay the price for OSS products, but then we got a price sticker shock. Now behold: QT is $3300 per seat. We have dropped the development and rewrote everything to C# (MSVS 2005 is ~$700). Embedded Linux from a reputable RT vendor is $25,000 per 5 seats per year. We needed only 3 seats. We had to buy 5 nevertheless. The support was bad. We will go for VxWorks or WinCE in our next product. Red Hat Linux WS is $299. An OEM version of Windows XP Pro is ~$140. A Cygwin commercial license will cost tens of thousands of dollars and is only available for large shops. We need 5 seats. Windows Unix services are free. After all, we have decided that the survival of our business is more important for us then 'do-good' ideas. Except for that embedded Linux (slated for WinCE or VxWorks substitution), we are not OSS shop anymore. [1]