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Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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his former company was called ximian, which was started to do commercial gnome development. this new company is called xamarin to do commercial mono development. those are some pretty confusing names.

From "simian" and "tamarin" in keeping with the monkey (mono) theme, presumably.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

I agree with this. While you could certainly make the argument that Mono undercuts Microsoft by expanding .NET beyond Windows, I think the amount of developer goodwill it generates towards .NET probably compensates for that.

Not to mention that Mono can be used to push developers toward Windows and the official .NET Framework, and in fact has.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Any one have any statistics on Mono or know companies that use it, always wondered about Mono usage. What are some use cases?

Not sure on how up-to-date this is: http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono

I know one prominent company using Mono is Medtronic, who use it for their iOS app, and have been featured prominently by Apple.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company that commercializes Mono, it would be tougher (but not impossible) for them to sue.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Any one have any statistics on Mono or know companies that use it, always wondered about Mono usage. What are some use cases?

My first thought is to run ASP.NET on a Linux server.

Also, some Gnome apps are written in C#: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Software_develo...

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