O'Reilly: The State of Java
O'Reilly: The State of Java: ".NET wouldn't be interesting to me without Mono, a way to run it on a platform other than Windows. What makes Mono interesting is that it's still growing and expanding, that it's very immature and there are green fields for hackers. The very things that make it unusable for business right now (or at least all but the bravest businesses) make it interesting to the alpha hackers. The interesting test will be whether Mono and .NET become Java with a different name, or whether they take us into a new application space. I sense there are some killer desktop information management apps coming in the next two years, and chances are that they'll be written in Mono. I say this because the people pushing the boundaries with Mono are big on the Linux desktop, thanks to Novell, and they'll be building out Mono in directions that suit their work. Java has a different niche from Perl, and what these hackers do will determine whether Mono has a different niche from Java or even Python." - posted by Saravanan Jayachandran @ 1:51 AM Permanent Link