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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 mattmanser »

m_myers wrote: post #16
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?

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...

Really? You gotta be pretty damn tight to deal with that nightmare I imagine.

I'd be more inclined to guess it sees more use in shops that are .Net but want to use something like a memcached or redis server and want to write small utilities on that server in a language they know.

Pure speculation though.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by bfrog »

I am confused by this. If attachmate let go of Mono developers clearly it felt the product has not been profitable and won't be any time soon.

What investor with a sound mind would feel otherwise? Novell had already dumped millions in to it and look where they ended up.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by bad_user »

bfrog wrote: post #32

I am confused by this. If attachmate let go of Mono developers clearly it felt the product has not been profitable and won't be any time soon. What investor with a sound mind would feel otherwise? Novell had already dumped millions in to it and look where they ended up.

    Novell had already dumped millions in to it
How do you know that?

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by bfrog »

bad_user wrote: post #33
bfrog wrote: post #32

I am confused by this. If attachmate let go of Mono developers clearly it felt the product has not been profitable and won't be any time soon. What investor with a sound mind would feel otherwise? Novell had already dumped millions in to it and look where they ended up.

Novell had already dumped millions in to it How do you know that?

In terms of developer salary alone I have no doubt Novell has put millions of dollars in to Mono with no real obvious profitable products.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by rodh257 »

darklajid wrote: post #26
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?

Banshee, F-Spot & Tomboy are for me the biggest players in the open-source Mono world.

Pinta is another great open source mono app
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