Excellent.  Assuming everything runs, that is.

Right now, there's an interesting dilemma: most grid toolkits and
environments are designed to run on various flavors of Unix, whereas
the majority of systems with untapped potential are running Windows. 
(This is an assumption, not a fact.)

This also means that the majority of grid developers are running Unix
machines and not Windows, and are not in a position to evaluate and
contribute to Alchemi, since it does not run on their platform.  While
the adoption of Mono will probably be slow (due to a distrust to use
anything associated in any way with Microsoft), it will come.

(sidenote: I personally think that real potential of grid computing
will not be using untapped resources of powerful server systems, but
rather utilizing the large installed base of less-powerful business
desktop/laptop systems, which, incidentally, tend to be running
Windows.)

So yes, that is excellent news.

Jonathan Mitchem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On 1/13/06, metasharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> lately I was checking the current status of Mono. It seems that
> remoting has been implemented. Maybe Alchemi could be built with mono
> too in order to work on linux, mac and windows?
>
> It would make it possible to have a computers grid running on free
> operating systems.
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> MetaSharp


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