MAY 07, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - After months of delay, Novell Inc. expects
to release a final version of its Mono software development platform by the
end of next month, the company said. It released the first public beta of
the Mono 1.0 software on a Web site earlier this week.
"We basically reached a stage where we're very near completion in terms of
the Mono 1.0 release," said Erik Dasque, Novell's Mono product manager. "The
goal is really to put it in the hands of users.... Not necessarily end
users, but developers who want to use the technology," he said.

The Mono 1.0 beta software was posted to the www.go-mono.com Web site early
Wednesday morning, he said.

The beta release packages together a number of open-source software
components designed as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform. It
includes a runtime environment for .Net applications, an integrated
development environment and a compiler for Microsoft's C# development
language.

Mono lets Linux users run Microsoft ASP.Net and Web services applications
without having to recompile their software, Dasque said.

The city of Munich, for example, is using Mono to move 300 servers that were
once running an ASP.Net management application on Windows to the Linux
operating system, without having to recompile the application's source code,
he said.

Munich, the third-largest city in Germany, is migrating the city's entire
network of 14,000 computers to Linux.
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