Re: [Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?

2004-10-02 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > Mono 1.0 was shipped awhile ago, and I'm really excited > about that... but now the natural question is: > > "Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?" Like others have said as follow up replies to your post, it depends on your needs and your comfort level. At this poi

Re: [Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?

2004-09-29 Thread Julien Gilli
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:55 +0100, PFJ wrote: > Take OpenOffice, > there are well over 200 people actively working on it, yet only about 15 > work for Sun! It might be a little bit off topic, and I'm not active enough (well, actually not active at all) in the OO.org community, but it seems that th

Re: [Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?

2004-09-29 Thread PFJ
Hi, > Mono 1.0 was shipped awhile ago, and I'm really excited > about that... but now the natural question is: > > "Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?" Depends on the context. For winforms, no. 1.2 will have that and it should rock. > ... and one more question is > > "

[Mono-list] Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?

2004-09-29 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Hi all, Mono 1.0 was shipped awhile ago, and I'm really excited about that... but now the natural question is: "Is Mono ready to compete with MS .NET in real business?" ... and one more question is "Will Novell provide support, documentation, etc.?" "If yes, by when?" These two questions