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I would like Microsoft's Developer Division to start supporting Linux more ... Windows servers are too expensive for me making scale-out strategies a PITA and IMHO technically inferior to Linux from a startup perspective.

Biztalk/Webspark are nice initiatives, but not enough.

And I would totally shell out the cash for a MSDN subscription / Visual Studio if I could choose Linux for deployment.

Better yet, collaborate more with the Mono project from Novell. Open-source more of the .NET platform.

The few open-source projects from Microsoft built around .NET don't really have an open-source development methodology ... let others contribute to the DLR, IronPython and IronRuby. Don't fear getting your property tainted ... how many projects from Apache have had such problems, or not getting used by the Fortune "whatever" companies?

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Collaboration with Mono on .NET would be the "killer" news for me. With Java looking increasingly shaky, it'd be nice to have a second "write-once, run-everywhere" paradigm.

While this may not end up being the greatest of reasons, a lot of my classmates shy away from .NET languages/MSFT technologies because they're more difficult to develop in Linux. Getting rid of that complaint would be super awesome.

It'd be nice if this effort included some SL/WPF support as well. Java still has swing and (gulp) JavaFX, and last I checked they run on any OS. As of now, I'm starting to feel like one has to write in flex if they want a desktop app with good UX to run everywhere.

Different OSes use different UX paradigms.

With Swing you end up with a common denominator, which really sucks and you're better off deploying a web app with a local server and a stripped down Firefox.

Or you could do what the big boys do, share the business logic on all platforms, but implement the UI using native APIs.

Here's a sample: http://www.skybound.ca/ The OS X client is implemented with Mono + MonoMac (Cocoa bindings).

"you're better off deploying a web app with a local server and a stripped down Firefox."

Please don't do this... we use a product that went this route at work and it's a pile of crap.

> it'd be nice to have a second "write-once, run-everywhere" paradigm.

You can use python or ruby.

He could, but CPython and Ruby are single language VMs.

DN and Java have a larger amount of classes accessible from any language, including Python and Ruby implementations.

I was really expecting Microsoft to launch a some ad campaign about .NET and mono after all of this Java/Oracle stuff hit the news. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Of course, as a developer, I hope there to be not just marketing and have a real initiative to bridge the divide.

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