Official .Net support for Sun Solaris and SunOS

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Official .Net support for Sun Solaris and SunOS

Anybody that's really into .Net knows about the Mono project (which will let .Net run on *NIX systems and obviously, MacOS10) but of course that's all 3rd party open source. Well it seems part of the settle between the classic MS/Sun Java lawsuit has lead to an official port of .Net to Sun Solaris and SunOS.

"under the terms of the Microsoft/DOJ settlement, working together to improve technical collaboration between .NET and Java"

Maybe I'm reading too much into this but I'm willing to bet .Net on Sun is what this really means. You can read the whole news story at http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1080921824.html

UPDATE: I just noticed that .Avery blog some good comments on this news and I guess it's the classic scenario of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" http://dotavery.com/blog/archive/2004/04/03/1118.aspx

posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 3:05 PM by travisowens

# @ Monday, April 05, 2004 3:55 PM

I do think that it would be great to have .NET support on Sun's systems, but I was thinking it may be something like they could create a layer between .NET and Java that either: 1) lets the JRE run .NET byte code or 2) they will work together to create a tool or some such thing to let .NET use classes written in Java and vice versa. IF they do provide a true .NET runtime on Sun's OS it will be interesting to see if it's the same as Mono or not (what I'm getting at is the complete lack of the System.Windows namespace...so still can't take a VS.NET project and run it on a sun box if you used that namespace)

AdamMB

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