ASP.NET and MONO

[lynxtrax]

Hey there,
hope this is the right forum?
Mono is a linux/apache port of the microsoft .NET clr - essentially it allows us to develop .NET applications independently of IIS.
http://www.go-mono.com/

I see that the mono project is gearing up for their first 1.0 release (June 30)

Is there any chance of futurequest considering this for futurequest servers? I would love to not have to use IIS servers for my .NET projects (before anyone criticizes me for having .NET projects in the first place, I live in Washington state which is kinda a state-wide Microsoft shop)

thanks

-chris
http://www.semioticpixels.com

[Terra]

It is still to early in the Mono life cycle to provide any comment or commitment to this platform...

--
Terra
--wonders how long before Microsoft starts to thump on Mono with its .NET patent portfolio--
FutureQuest

[lynxtrax]

how long before Microsoft starts to thump on Mono with its .NET patent portfolio

yup, the first thing that popped into my mind when the first time I heard about Mono. The mono folks just say they're building a clone of NET much like linux is a clone of UNIX

Microsoft has submitted bits and pieces of C#, the runtime, metadata, etc to ECMA to be standardized. Mono is part of ximian/gnome project (owned by Novell) so hopefully they've got enough backing to handle any attacks from m$

-chris

[Terra]

much like linux is a clone of UNIX
For which has turned into a $4,000,000,000 civil war... :fire:

--
Terra
--the only thing worse than submarine patents, are patents created to snipe competing alternative implementations of an agreed upon standard--
FutureQuest

[lynxtrax]

<<sigh>> too true.

The interoperable programming platform (CLI) isn't owned by m$ though and really, that's the most interesting thing about .NET

-otherwise, all that free "functionality" is the primary attractant to .NET yet without writing custom server controls, the output is abysmal.

(<<finishing up a .NET project from hell - glad to be done with m$-land for a while>>)