[Mono-list] Major Banking application goes live on Mono

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

That's awesome :)

What version of Mono is being used?


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Veerapuram Varadhan
<vvaradhan at novell.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A credit that should be shared with *all* the contributors of Mono.
>
> CEdge [1] is a joint venture of a leading software giant, Tata
> Consultancy Services and the prominent bank in India - State Bank of
> India.  They service rural banks with their Core Banking Solution called
> BaNCS, which is a .NET 1.1/2.0 (not much of 2.0) application running on
> Windows 2003 servers.
>
> Mono team (when it was a part of Novell) took up the porting task to get
> the application up and running on SLES as the operating platform.  The
> porting task ended with a PoC of running 5 branches of a Bank for 6
> months without a single ticket been raised.
>
> We changed only about 2% of their BaNCS code to make it run seamlessly
> with Mono.
>
> In an recent event organized by SUSE and sponsored by Economic Times,
> CEdge publicly announced [2] their migration to Linux from Windows.
> Though, announcement doesn't explicitly mention about Mono and its not
> required as well.  Isn't it pretty obvious that its Mono and nothing
> else? ;-)
>
> Its a proud moment for all of us to celebrate as BaNCS is the first
> banking application to run on Mono, officially. ;-)
>
> I take this opportunity to congratulate and thank *all* the members of
> Mono community for such a wonderful product.
>
> Best,
>
> V. Varadhan
>
> [1] http://www.cedge.in
> [2]
>
> http://services.bluebytes.info/BlueBytes/include/NT_ShowHeadline.php?mode=News&isChild=0&NID=0735c38dA9ba5A4a55Aa359A0421338e6b1c&NUID=3837&Comp=fdb149af2f6c0cf5477033d1febdca7b3dfe5529&len=0&isLevel=181946
> [2] http://t.co/g2xnsDYk
>
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