A different kind of Mono culture

Article on The Register about Mono:

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Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Web services platform, can dramatically improve developer productivity, according to the leading light of the project.

Miguel de Icaza, CTO and co-founder of open source firm Ximian, which was acquired by Novell last month, took centre stage at the company's BrainShare onference in Barcelona today.

de Icaza told delegates a "large and growing developer community", including 150 external contributors, is working on Mono, which remains on track for a 1.0 release by the end of the year.

Mono enables Unix and Linux interoperability for emerging .NET applications and environments while allowing developers to write in more higher level, richer programming languages.

According to de Icaza, Mono is stable: four ISVs have already developed applications based on Mono - a sign of the growing maturity of the platform, he says.
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