Latest News from Miguel de Icaza

Mono, Mainsoft and Cross-Platform Enterprise Development

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:30:00 EST

At first glance, it may sound like an impossible prospect for .NET developers to engage in cross-platform, open source development in the enterprise. Such a reality would be unfortunate, because many development teams enjoy the productivity inherent in using Visual Studio .NET and its wealth of tools for rapidly producing high-quality code. However, they would also like the ability to deploy on platforms other than Windows.

De Icaza Strikes Out: "Cringley Is All Wrong" About Microsoft

Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In a sharp rebuttal of a Robert X. Cringley column last week sub-titled 'The Only Way to Beat Microsoft Is To Ignore Microsoft' in which he argued that paying too much attention to Microsoft simply allows Microsoft to define the game 'and when Microsoft gets to define the game, they ALWAYS win,' Miguel de Icaza declares: 'A nice statement, but nothing more than a nice statement, other than that, it's all incorrect. Microsoft has won in the past due to many factors, and none of them related to 'Let them define the game'.' He goes on to give examples.

Keynote Panel : The Open Source Debate

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST

This lively discussion will take on the controversial OS questions tha everyone is asking.

The Mono Project

Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:00:00 EST

In July 2001 we announced the launch of the Mono Project an effort to build an open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework using the technical documents that Microsoft submitted to ECMA (the European Computer Manufacturers Association) for standarization.