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Development Environment for the Next 20 Years  by Dale Dougherty
Open Source developer Miguel de Icaza, leader of the GNOME
project and founder of Ximian, has been exploring Microsoft's
.NET platform with an open mind. When I interviewed him over a
month ago, he told me that he was impressed with .NET. Then he
was only beginning to think about the implications of
Microsoft.NET in the Open Source community. Since then, he has
organized a new project called Mono, which will try to build a
free implementation of .NET for UNIX systems. Ximian will
dedicate some resources to this project, but like any Open
Source project, its success will depend heavily on contributions
from independent developers.  ".NET is an interesting mix of
technologies," said Miguel de Icaza. He likes the C# language,
and he is particularly impressed by .NET's component
architecture and its development tools. .NET provides