[Mono-list] why should I use mono?

[Andy Satori]

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While I can't speak for the Mono team, nor for everyone, I don't see 
this as an either / or proposition.

I'm working with Mono to gain alternative platforms for projects that 
were defined as C# / .NET framework implementations by the business.

FRom a development deployment perspective, writing a WebService in Mono 
/ .NET is significantly easier than doing them in Java.

Remoting is also much easier.

Java is still a great environment, and for some projects, it remains 
the best choice.  There still isn't a usable Mono for the Mac OS X, so 
if you require OS X compatability, Java is your best option.

In short, I don't think there is a unilateral why, there are a lot of 
little contributing reasons that you as a developer need to evaluate to 
the business, or productivity problem that you are trying to solve.  
Unfortunately, we as developers sometimes lose track of the concept of 
the 'best solution to a problem' in our advocacy of what we are 
comfortable with, or of what we want to learn next :-).

Andy


On Nov 7, 2003, at 6:29 AM, Evert Tigchelaar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I read in an artical about mono.
> Why should developers should write code for the mono
> runtime instede of Java?
>
> Evert
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