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Why Mono is significant

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Mono is an open source implementation of the .Net development framework as developed by Microsoft and submitted to the ECMA standards authority. The project, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and -- most importantly -- it illustrates the resolve of the open source community to rise to Microsoft's challenge.

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mojavelinux ·
The exact argument that I was making at JavaOne was that many developers DON'T buy into Java yet. Mono should scare Sun because developers are deciding to change languages/middleware platforms and they are choosing Mono over Java. If Sun doesn't start trying to understand why this is happening, they might as well shelve their entire marketing department.

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