Microsoft at last buys .NET-for-iOS, Android vendor Xamarin

Posted by BernardSwiss on Feb 25, 2016 2:37 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright
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In parallel with Microsoft's efforts, an open source version of .NET named Mono was created by Ximian, an open source company founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. Ximian was acquired by Novell in 2003, and Novell was bought by Attachmate in 2011. Attachmate laid off all Mono staff shortly after the acquisition, and de Icaza and Friedman founded Xamarin later that same year to continue their work with Mono.

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