{"id":711,"date":"2006-01-27T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T22:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=711"},"modified":"2006-01-27T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T22:43:49","slug":"ibm-getting-mono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/01\/27\/ibm-getting-mono\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Getting Mono?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years now, I&#8217;ve been discussing the subject of Mono within major software vendors in an attempt to get them to actively consider it &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000590.html\">here<\/a>&#8216;s one mention of just such an instance. But with just a few exceptions, these conversations went nowhere &#8211; and a couple got downright ugly. <\/p>\n<p>Thus it was with interest that I learned of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/tlb\/tlb011706-story03.html\">news<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=66\">Erik<\/a> that IBM (looks like STG rather than SWG) is partnering with Mainsoft to port .NET applications to JEE land using in part&#8230;you guessed it, Mono. I don&#8217;t think I can take any credit for that move, but it&#8217;s interesting to see nonetheless. <\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I&#8217;ve also found it interesting that the last two IBM demos of products running on desktop Linux I&#8217;ve seen were on OSs (SuSE, presumably) using KDE rather than GNOME. Not reading too much into that, but it&#8217;s interesting, given that much of the alternative corporate desktop support &#8211; Novell(partially), Red Hat, Sun, etc &#8211; is in GNOME. <\/p>\n<p>But anyway, I&#8217;ll have to follow up with these folks to see what prompted the about face on Mono, because last time I checked that was a non-starter with the folks from Big Blue. Of course, that was true of PHP at one point as well, so I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised. <\/p>\n<p>For those that are curious, yes, I&#8217;m still convinced that Microsoft should officially ok &#8211; not support, just ok &#8211; the Mono project. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000539.html\">why<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years now, I&#8217;ve been discussing the subject of Mono within major software vendors in an attempt to get them to actively consider it &#8211; here&#8216;s one mention of just such an instance. But with just a few exceptions, these conversations went nowhere &#8211; and a couple got downright ugly. Thus it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}