[Mono-list] Advantages to Using Mono

[Matthew Winter]

Hi,

On a number of recent projects I have made use of Mono and Linux for hosting ASP.NET MVC 3 projects. I found overall the option to work well, however there does exist a number of potential pitfalls, mainly around the database and ORM solutions. If you are serious about using Mono, then you should enforce the use of an open source solution for your ORM and you should think very hard about which database you want to make use of. I found that many of the "commercial" .NET Drivers either do not work or half work under Mono, and generally this is due to the way the driver has been written, not the Mono implementation. So when selecting a database, think about using MySQL or PostgreSQL, or potentially look at the NoSQL options such as MongoDB and Redis. The fact the drivers are open source gives you great flexibility when it comes to potentially having to fix the driver when used under Mono. Although I have used all 4 of these with great success under Mono.

Regards
Matthew Winter



On 26/07/2011, at 5:08 AM, spamname5 wrote:

> Hey All,
> 
> I'm trying to make a case for using Mono for a new project coming up and was
> hoping that this list could help me with that decision.  The situation we
> are in is that we have a smallish development team with extensive experience
> working .net with visual studio 2010.  We would like to develop a new high
> availability web application using jQuery and jQueryUI within a MVC
> framework while utilizing the development tools in visual studios.  We
> currently have a web farm consisting of linux servers running apache (and
> hosting some legacy products that can't get moved) and the shear cost of new
> hardware plus Microsoft license fees for those webservers is forcing us to
> search for another solution.   Here seemingly enters Mono.   Seems that mono
> would be a great fit since we could use mono-tools assist in the development
> in VS2010, as well as using the VS2010 debugging tools and then deploy to
> our current apache server farm updated to run mod_mono.   There is a bit of
> hesitation however involved with some parties that mono will not provide the
> speed/reliability of a fully native windows solution.  Do people think
> running mono in this configuration would be reasonable close to running IIS
> when considering speed and reliability?  In addition if we are using the
> mono tools migration analysis can we be pretty confident that deployment
> will be fairly free of compatibility issues?  
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks for you assistance
> 
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