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Mono Developers start their own company

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Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by equark »

sapper2 wrote: post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

Giving the Mono guys $50 million seems like a no-brainer investment to me. This is particularly true since MonoTouch directly helps bring apps to WP7. It would also help their cloud efforts. The future is heterogeneous, and while Mono can already handle that there's too much FUD.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by sh4na »

m_myers wrote: post #11
there wrote: post #9

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.

yup, that's exactly it

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by matthew-wegner »

c4urself wrote: post #7

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

Unity (http://unity3d.com) is a 3D game engine that embeds Mono for scripting purposes.

Platform-wise, Unity has their own web player, pending NaCL support, pending Flash/Molehill support, shipped standalone Windows/Mac, pending Linux support, iPhone, Android, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360. They use AOT compilation on more restrictive platforms (iPhone, Xbox 360, etc).

I couldn't find an official comprehensive list, but this forum post attempts to cover iOS successes. 7 Unity-made games have hit #1 in the app store: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/65053-iPhone-games-chart-be...

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Post by darklajid »

sapper2 wrote: post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

I don't know..

While I'd love to see some funding for these awesome guys, I don't think that Microsoft's money would be that great. Moving Mono development from a big corporation to a small startup might even help settle some of the FUD problems. Receiving money from MS probably wouldn't...

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by mdeicaza »

senex wrote: post #13

Does anybody know how they'll be funded over the next few years?

We should break even from the proprietary products, plus the consulting and support services.

That being said, we want to grow, we want to market, we want to expand, and for that we will be raising VC funds.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by darklajid »

mdeicaza wrote: post #27
senex wrote: post #13

Does anybody know how they'll be funded over the next few years?

We should break even from the proprietary products, plus the consulting and support services. That being said, we want to grow, we want to market, we want to expand, and for that we will be raising VC funds.

Great to see you here.

Any plans to have a 'Team' section for Xamarin? I'd love to know who jumped on board, tbh.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by equark »

darklajid wrote: post #25
sapper2 wrote: post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

I don't know.. While I'd love to see some funding for these awesome guys, I don't think that Microsoft's money would be that great. Moving Mono development from a big corporation to a small startup might even help settle some of the FUD problems. Receiving money from MS probably wouldn't...

True. Although funding or enterprise adoption from somebody like IBM would say a lot. Right now it is not clear whether Mono is a viable enterprise platform for customers that value cross-platform deployments. At least that's the perception I get.
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