>Suppose I had another client that was interested in the same app, but was running a solely Linux shop. Could I take the Visual Studio .NET C# source code, drop it into Linux mono, and run it under Linux mono without problem?
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No, Leland you can't drop it over there, without any problems. You will need to do some tweaks and modifications, but it can work. What type of application are you writing for a Linux shop anyways? If you developing an Windows application then that will be problem, because of the different X-Windows servers for linux. Or you just talking about the WebServices or ASP.NET part of the application?


Microsoft doesn't like Linux, and is threatened by it so it won't really help to convert any of its stuff to Linux. Which is too bad, because .NET framework is really powerful. Mono handles it pretty well, so if you are writing webservices or asp.net applications, and want to move them to a pure Linux shop then using Mono would be the way to go. But you will need to see what quirks Mono has, I know it has different quirks as it tries to keep current w/ 1.1 of the Framework.

The other thing, if you are using all XML approach for webservices and for data design, it is generic enough and you could probably pretty easily move it over to Linux.

I've done both Linux web development and Windows .NET development over the last few years, and they can work together, it just takes a little time to get them working well.

Morgan