iFolder and Mono
Just finished a session on the next version of iFolder and Mono. Novell announced yesterday that they are placing the iFolder project into the Open Source community and it's available for download on the
Novell Forge site. One of the presenters commented that they already have a bug report on the site and it was just released yesterday.
From a .NET perspective there was a good decision tree analysis of why they picked the CLR / Mono route for their project. It basically came down to a discussion of the GUI and Java just didn't give them what they wanted. The look and feel along with deployment and performance were the Cons of a JVM approach.
On the Mono/.NET slide they did mention that there is an internal project to port Mono to the NetWare platform. This will give them complete platform independence for all the code both client side and server side.
All the GUI work they're doing is based on GTK# - the widget toolkit underneath the GNOME project. There are libraries for the Windows family making it a true cross platform solution. While the IDE and associated tools aren't quite as nice as Visual Studio they are making lots of progress. Monodevelop is not quite ready for prime time and isn't available as a package yet but looks pretty good.
I have in interview w/
Miguel de Icaza later today so I'll try to add notes from that later.
