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

[Veerapuram Varadhan]

Mono 2.6.7 - as their code is still mostly .Net 1.x.

Thanks,

V. Varadhan

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 23:24 +1100, Daniel Lo Nigro wrote:
> 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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