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Stockwire.com: Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) just released some important news.
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:06102008
Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), just announced Mono 2.0 for Cross-Platform
Microsoft .NET DevelopmentDevelopers can now run .NET applications on
Linux, Solaris, Unix & Mac platforms.
A dedicated Chat Room for Novell, has been created at STOCKWIRE.com to
discuss this news event.
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WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Mono(R) project, an open source initiative
sponsored by Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL), today announced the availability of
Mono 2.0, an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework.
Mono 2.0 provides all the necessary software to develop and run .NET
client and server applications on Linux*, as well as other operating
systems. The new Mono 2.0 release is now compatible with the desktop
and server components of version 2.0 of the Microsoft* .NET framework
and features the Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA), an analytical tool for
.NET-to-Linux migrations.
According to an IDC study (1), nearly 50 percent of IT decision makers,
developers and architects surveyed, reported that they use Microsoft
.NET as the application technology platform on which their
mission-critical applications (excluding email) run. With Mono 2.0,
developers can leverage their existing investment and skill sets to
build .NET 2.0 applications for deployment on a variety of platforms,
including Linux, Solaris*, Unix*, and Mac OS X*.
"Mono 2.0 gives .NET developers the freedom to run their applications
on a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS, and
Unix," said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of Development Platforms at
Novell and maintainer of the Mono project. "Mono 2.0 benefits a wider
range of developers, ISVs and end-users by allowing them to write their
applications once and run them on any OS platform, dramatically
increasing portability and expanding their market reach."
More than 2,000 .NET applications are Mono 2.0 compatible with no code
changes: Mono 2.0 now includes MoMA, the Mono Migration Analyzer. MoMA,
which runs natively on .NET or on the Mono framework, helps developers
quantify the number of changes required to run their .NET application
in a Linux environment. In an analysis of 4,600 .NET applications using
MoMA, 45 percent of the applications required no code changes to work
with Mono. An additional 24 percent of the applications were shown to
require fewer than six code changes to run on Mono.
Mono project enables cross-platform development: One of the most recent
successful uses of the Mono framework is the rapid development of
Moonlight(TM), an open-source, Mono-based plug-in version of Microsoft
Silverlight, which is used to create and host next-generation, rich
interactive applications. Linden Lab uses Mono in the development of
their Second Life project to improve the stability and speed of scripts
-- particularly calculation-intensive ones.
"Deploying Mono as the primary scripting engine on the Second Life Grid
has had enormously positive effects for our Residents," said Jim
Purbrick, technical director, Core Platform, Linden Lab. "In fact, some
of the internal benchmarking we've done has shown that scripts running
on Mono run up to 220 times faster. The speed and reliability that Mono
provides opens up new possibilities for content creators and improves
the experience of even causal users."
Unity Technologies, a leading 3-D game development tool provider, uses
Mono for its game development system.
"We chose Mono because of its performance and cross-language
capability," said Joachim Ante, CTO and co-founder at Unity
Technologies. "Mono provides Unity's diverse developer community the
ability to work in such languages as JavaScript, C# and Boo, resulting
in a very short learning curve and immediate familiarity with scripting
in Unity. The latest version of Mono represents significant
improvements in stability and performance and makes it even easier for
us to develop feature-rich cross-platform applications that run on the
Web, Windows, OS X, Nintendo* Wii* and soon the iPhone*."
Mono 2.0 streamlines development of .NET-based applications
New features available in Mono 2.0 include: -- Easy installation -- A
one-click install feature for SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise and openSUSE(R),
as well as easy-to-use installers for many of the other supported
platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X.
-- Comprehensive platform, hardware and API support -- The Mono
framework supports a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X,
Solaris, BSD and Windows; a variety of hardware options, such as x86,
AMD 64, IA-64 (Itanium 2), EMT 64, PowerPC, ARM, S390 and S390x, SPARC
and SPARC 9; all Microsoft .NET 2.0 APIs, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET
and Windows.Forms; and C# 3.0 compiler with Language Integrated Query
(LINQ) support.
-- Performance upgrades -- Improves scaling and performance for
ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Mono runtime.
-- Useful downloads -- A virtual machine image that comes with a
ready-to-use development environment, as well as many open source Web
and desktop .NET applications, including the ASP.NET Starter Kits and
other demos. An updated version of the MoMA tool, with improved
reporting, is also available.
ISV support for Mono 2.0: "With the inclusion of Microsoft .NET 2.0
desktop components in the Mono 2.0 release, we will now be able to
deliver the same graphical administration experience across over 125
platforms," said Krishna Ganugapati, vice president of Engineering at
Likewise Software. "Giving customers a common way to view and manage
all of their systems in a heterogeneous enterprise environment helps
conserve valuable people resources, improves security and makes
auditors much happier which translates to goodness for everyone."
Steve G. Bjorg, chief technology officer at MindTouch, said, "MindTouch
built their open source enterprise collaboration and integration
platform, Deki, on the Mono framework. MindTouch Deki enables customers
to 'webify' legacy applications, bridge multiple applications with a
common interface and provide a more usable interface to systems and
databases. Since the core of MindTouch Deki is implemented in C# and
deployed to Linux using Mono, we are excited to see Mono 2.0 adding C#
3.0 compiler support, including support for Language Integrated Query
(LINQ)."
About Novell:
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT
management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost,
complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of
partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments,
allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information,
visit http://www.novell.com.
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