Mono Team Tightens Ties To Microsoft
Visual Basic compiler added to environment; .NET components next
March 15, 2007 —
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Mono, the open source .NET runtime project run by Novell, has gone back to basics. In February, the Mono team announced that it has added, for the first time, a Visual Basic compiler to the Mono environment. This compiler marks the first of many new advancements planned for the project in 2007, according to Novell.
“We had the ability to run Visual Basic applications in Mono,” said Frank Rego, product manager for Novell’s open platform solutions, “but we did not have the ability to compile Visual Basic applications. That makes a big difference in the area of ASP.NET,” where on-the-fly compilation is necessary.
“Before,” he noted, “we could run programs that didn’t depend on the compiler on the Mono side, [but] we could not run ASP.NET applications written in Visual Basic.”
Rego said that 2007 will see Mono come into line with .NET components. “We’re working toward compatibility with ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET 2.0 and Windows Forms 2.0. We ought to have the ASP.NET work done midyear and Windows Forms 2.0 closer to the end of the year,” said Rego.
“Mono offers the means to run .NET technology, which has shown itself to be a credible alternative to Java,” said Andrew Jaquith, analyst and program manager at research firm Yankee Group. “[But] with Java going open source, some of the appeal of Mono—its openness—is going away.”
While Jaquith sees Mono as a useful technology, he doubts that its new Visual Basic compatibility will spur enterprises to consider the project. “I think Mono’s relevance to the enterprise is limited, and running VB applications does little to change that,” said Jaquith. “Most developers who like Microsoft technology will run it on a Microsoft operating system—rather than an alternative platform where things may, or may not, work. Besides, with all of the saber-rattling [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer has been doing about open source and Linux, why enter what Microsoft would have you believe is a legal minefield?”
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