.Net for Unix \ Linux

[Bert O'Neill]

Hi

Looking for information on whether or not Microsoft intend to develop
a .Net for Unix \ Linux OS (thus opening a brand new OS for VB.Net
programmers). I know of the Mono project (but this is seemly a lot
slower that .Net on Windows).

Regards
Bert

[SmartiKat]

Re: .Net for Unix \ Linux

I have never heard of any such intention from Microsoft. Why do you think
Microsoft would throw away good R&D money for free?

"Bert O'Neill" <bert.oneill@td wp.com> wrote in message
news:312ba550.0 309030801.c694e c7@posting.goog le.com...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> Looking for information on whether or not Microsoft intend to develop
> a .Net for Unix \ Linux OS (thus opening a brand new OS for VB.Net
> programmers). I know of the Mono project (but this is seemly a lot
> slower that .Net on Windows).
>
> Regards
> Bert[/color]

[Pete]

Re: .Net for Unix \ Linux

Hi,

SmartiKat wrote:[color=blue]
> I have never heard of any such intention from Microsoft. Why do you
> think Microsoft would throw away good R&D money for free?[/color]

The shared source release (rotor) was ported to FreeBSD by Microsoft. That
must have taken some effort. They couldn't do windows forms (too difficult),
but they do provide a tcl/tk gui frontend (if I remember rightly).

Plus there's Qt#, GTK#, Wx.NET and probably a few others that can be used
for cross platform gui stuff with .NET.

Pete