.NET, Open Source and Mono (presented at Colorado Springs OS Group (9/24/2009)

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1996

Java's write-once-run-everywhere

capability along with its easy accessibility

have propelled the software and Internet communities to embrace it as

the de facto standard for writing applications for complex networks

“JavaSoft Ships Java 1.0; Programming environment available free for developers” - Jan 23 rd, 1996

2000

TheCommonLanguage Infrastructure

The Common Language Runtime

2001http://www.ecma-international.org/images/logo_printerf.jpg

http://bakara.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/icaza1.jpg

2003http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1819

2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

Released

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27385http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/steve-ballmer-microsoft-ceo.jpg

Who's going to stand up and support open source? At least, with us, it's clear who you

have to come and pound down on.

There's a clear line of responsibility.

http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27385http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/steve-ballmer-microsoft-ceo.jpg

Technology innovation has

happened much, much more from

commercial software developers

than from open source

http://www.computing.northampton.ac.uk/~gary/images/OpenSource.gif

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

mason.gmu.edu/~ktrotman/images/Ghandi.jpg

2009

…11,415!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223005-16.html

.NET Open Source?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Technology-Adoption-Lifecycle.png

“We created Mono to make

desktop development

fun”- Miguel de Icaza

http://www.novell.com/ncmagopenxtest/2008/04/img/tt2_miguel_de_icaza_keynote.jpg

Multi-Platform

Multi-Language

Binary Compatible

http://www.psdgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/binary-code-background.jpg

Microsoft-Compatible API

Open Source & Free

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Feb-21.html

APIs

Mono.RelaxNGJava/IKVM

Mono.ZeroConf Mono.NatMono.Cecil

Novell.Ldap

ASP.NET

Apache and FastCGI

System.DataSQL Server

Server

Infrastructure

Mono.Fuse

Mono.Addins

Postgress, MySQLSqlite, Oracle, Sybase

Tao.Framework

C5

NDesk.DBus

Third Party

Gecko# (Mozilla)Mono.NatMono.Torrent Mono.Upnp

Gtk# Windows.Forms

Cocoa#

Client

Mono.CairoGdk#

Pango#

Diagram sourced from Miguel de Icaza’s PDC2008 presentation at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC54/

PORTED

PORTED

Moonlight http://www.dnzone.com/downloads/images/silverlight_wallpaper.jpg

http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/edunhill/WindowsLiveWriter/SilverlightonLinuxMoonlight_C57C/image_2.png

GameDevelopment

Resources

http://delicious.com/virtualgenius/Mono

http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/phrase/377/microphone.html

The Future

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/best-wallpapers-2008.html

Questions?

http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/phrase/377/microphone.html

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