What does this mean for projects like Mono? For those that don't understand the question, Mono is "sponsored by Novell".  Additionally, "For fast response to specific issues related to the Mono runtime, APIs and tools, developers can take advantage of the Mono Developer Support Service Requests from Novell that can be ...

Via the Interoperability Webcast Series site, I noticed the following scheduled webcasts (under the 'Other Java/Unix' tab): MSDN Webcast: Mono: Interoperating with Linux the Easy Way (Level 200)02/08/2005 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PSTHow do you go about retrieving data from a MySQL database hosted on a Linux server? This webcast, led by ...

Someone asked tonight a question along the lines of “What is Microsoft's stance on Mono?“.  Although I can't answer that question definitively, I can offer to share my opinion.  So, for what it's worth, I'm going to share some of my thoughts.  (Note: This is streamed from my brain... through the fingers... to the ...

Late last year, Paco, Stephen and myself talked about having Paco come in and do a presentation to the Fort Worth .NET Users Group related along the lines of “Mono for the Microsoft .NET Developer”.  Although I'm not a fan of Linux, I find the idea behind what Mono is to be very beneficial to *all* .NET developers.  I also ...

I've been somewhat following the Mono project for a while now.  Of course, since I'm a VB developer... I've not taken the plunge just yet since the VB side of things has been moving slowly (with little updates being said about the project).  However, that's not to say that they aren't interested in getting the VB side of things done... ...

Novell and Miguel de Icaza have posted the Mono Project Roadmap outlining the release schedule of upcoming versions of Mono.  What's interesting to me is the section under Mono 1.2 that states: New compilers: VB.NET and JScript support. What's important here is that earlier in the document, it states that “Our strategy is to release the mature ...