Open source .NET alternative
Users of .NET-based applications now have a new opportunity to migrate to an open source platform. The Mono project yesterday released Mono 2.0, the latest version of its open source version of Microsoft’s .NET framework.
Sponsored by Novell, Mono allows users to run .NET applications on most operating systems without needing Microsoft’s .NET software.
The benefit for users is that most existing .Net-based applications can be run without needing any changes to the underlying code. For developers it means that their applications can enjoy a wider audience.
The new Mono 2.0 release is now compatible with the desktop and server components of version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET framework and features the Mono Migration Analyser (MoMA), an analytical tool for .NET-to-Linux migrations.
"Mono 2.0 gives .NET developers the freedom to run their applications on a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS, and Unix," said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of development platforms at Novell and maintainer of the Mono project. "Mono 2.0 benefits a wider range of developers, ISVs and end-users by allowing them to write their applications once and run them on any OS platform, dramatically increasing portability and expanding their market reach."
In an analysis of 4 600 .NET applications using MoMA, 45% of the applications required no code changes to work with Mono. An additional 24% of the applications were shown to require fewer than six code changes to run on Mono.
The Mono project can be found at www.mono-project.com
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