>Hi,
>I was wondering if anyone had taken a look at the C# beta code that is available for Linux or BSD. If so what have you discovered? Does the beta have win forms? Will it run with Apache?
>John
All of them are pretty much in early beta, if not alpha.
Ximian's Mono project is working on C# and their version of .NET at http://www.go-mono.com , which seems the most advanced.

DotGNU is offering Southern Storm's parotable GPL C#

You'll have to use BSD (with all of its propriatary code allowances) because Micrsoft has clauses in its .NET and C# EULAs that prohibit GPL code and MS code from cohabitating.

I am sticking with Java and C++. I don't believe .NET has a future. We gave it a cursory look and decided that there would be no advantage is keeping our data local (IRS security reqs) and our apps on an APP server connected via the web. If web access goes down we would be stopped in our tracks. Besides, since we code all of our apps inhouse, why shipped them out to reside on servers not under our control?

Many developers see .NET as a way to get their clients into a subscription mode of access, assuming they will have a more steady revenue income. I doubt it. Most clients will want to control their costs, and bulk, volume or long term license models is the wave of the past, not the future. Being in total control of your own source code and your own data formats on your own servers is where folks will be moving. It is only the big software houses like Microsoft, pushing to minimize THEIR software production costs, that are driving the PR associated with .NET and MONO. Sure, it would be nice for Microsoft if they could generate just a few executables for Office, which people could access at some application server for a regular subscription fee, or perhaps metered access. They wouldn't have to generate physical boxes or software containing CDs which could be duped illegally, track registration, fight pirates, publish upgrade releases, etc... They fire a large number of employees and set back to collect subscription fees. People aren't buying it. I am not either.
JLK