mono-u još fali prije svega gomila dokumentacije i kvalitetni razvojni alati...onaj monodevelop bi mogao biti i malo napredniji, jako bih volio da je glade integriran u njega, ili još bolje da je windows forms dizajner prisutan u samom mono-u, a ne da se koristi šugavi glade...ovako djeluje nekako...neintegrirano :)
A što se tiče ovog zadnjeg:
http://www.theregister.com/2005/06/16/_microsoft_indigo/
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The suspicion was, though, Microsoft was simply using standards to help quickly seed the market, especially the academic community, with these newer technologies - technologies that are regarded as vital to Microsoft's future direction.
However, Microsoft regards Indigo, and Avalon, as features that will be important to Longhorn, Windows XP and Windows Server Release 2, and which it should retain control of.
Developers who connect to Indigo using implementations of the Microsoft and IBM authored WS- specifications, currently navigating the OASIS and W3C standards processes, though, are in the clear, and do not need to approach Microsoft on licensing of technology used in the WS- specifications.
"If someone wanted to build an implementation of the WS- protocols that could talk to Indigo, they can use the public specs to build their own implementation. If however, someone wanted to clone Avalon or Indigo from top to bottom (that is, from APIs down to protocols) they'll probably want to approach Microsoft about licensing," a Microsoft spokeswoman told The Register.
Tako da ništa od Avalona na linuxu :D
Premda IMHO mono teško da će završiti kao wine, polušugava bugovita varijacija originala, jer iza njega stoje ozbiljni ljudi, a sve više linux developera shvaća superiornost .NET-a nad old skul alatima, prije svega u produktivnosti, te u portabilnosti (iskompajliraj jednom, već je portabilno na sve *nix-e i win, nikakvi jebeni autotoolsi ili sl. nije potrebno).
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Al samo neka mono bude integriran tako da za 1god. Da se moze dobit i free .ASP hosting. A ne samo .PHP!
http://www.monoforge.com/
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Tj. vise od pola naredbi nema u mono.
Nema sve što je MS-specific...nitko ne očekuje u mono-u podršku za WMI...ili za MS Office :) U specifičnim implementacijama -> možda.
Ono što je meni fascinatno jest stvaranje managed extenzija za sve open-source projekte. Apache (mod_mono), gtk#, gecko#...evolution# :) You name it....čak i OpenOffice.org :)
Preporučam ti da pročitaš malo Miguelov blog...vrlo je optimističan i sadrži mnogo detalja gdje drugdje nečeš naći.
http://tirania.org/blog/all.html