The Code Project, Mainsoft Announce 'Race to Linux'

TORONTO and SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- What: The Code Project, a virtual community comprised of 2.2 million

Visual Studio(R) developers worldwide, today announced that

registrations for the first-ever "Race to Linux(R)," sponsored

by Mainsoft(R) Corporation and IBM, are now open. The Race to Linux challenges Visual Studio developers to port

existing ASP.NET applications to Linux using their

cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mono, Grasshopper, PHP,

Macromedia, etc.). The Code Project will announce which

ASP.NET application needs to run on IBM xSeries Linux at the

start of each race. The winners of each of the three races will win an Xbox 360.

In addition, contestants using Grasshopper will also qualify to

win an Xbox 360 game of their choice. Limit one Xbox 360 and

one game per participant. When: The first race begins Monday, September 19th at 8:00 a.m. North

America PT. Check The Code Project for additional start times. Where: Registrants can sign up at http://www.codeproject.com/racetolinux. Why: One in five Code Project community members uses Linux

development technologies, and sixteen percent use Java. Recent

studies by Evans Data Corporation (http://www.evansdata.com) indicate

there is a growing interest in cross-platform Linux

development. In the United States, one in five developers that

use the Visual Studio .NET IDE as their primary development

environment has written an application that runs on Linux.

That percent is expected to increase to twenty-five percent by

2006. In both Europe and Asia, Linux application development

is expected to jump to one in three Visual Studio developers by

2006. The Code Project is hosting the Race to Linux to encourage

Visual Studio developers to experiment with .NET-to-Linux

porting options and share best practices in successfully

porting .NET server applications to Linux. For more information visit

http://www.codeproject.com/racetolinux/rules. Press Contacts:

Jodi Schechter Jenna Dobkin

The Code Project Mainsoft Corporation

jodi@codeproject.com jennad@mainsoft.com

416-642-1998 x 151 415-652-2185