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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Monday, 06 April 2009 | |
  
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(That is, if this queue exists. Somehow, one tends to doubt that.) Novell announced on March 31 Australian time (not April 1), that it was releasing MonoDevelop 2.0, an IDE for C# and other languages. The company also released Mono 2.4, the latest version of the .NET clone, an effort led by its vice-president, Miguel de Icaza. The media release sent to iTWire says: "MonoDevelop 2.0 enables developers to write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux, port .NET applications created with Microsoft Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X, and maintain a single code base for all three platforms. MonoDevelop provides tools to simplify and streamline .NET application development on Linux." Curious. It fits in very neatly with the definition of evangelism at Microsoft: "Evangelism is the art and science of getting developers to ship products that support Microsoft's platforms". (thanks to greygeek on the linuxtoday forums). The definition is contained in a highly confidential document titled "Effective Evangelism" which came to light during the Comes v Microsoft trial. The author, James Plasmondon, writes in his introduction: "Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat." Novell would probably have a view on this and with this in mind, I rang Michele Bartoline, the company's marketing manager for Australia and New Zealand, who was listed as a press contact on the media release. She wasn't available so I left a message. I'm waiting eagerly to hear what Novell has to say. And when I hear from them, gentle reader, you can be sure that you too will be kept in the loop. |
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