Novell’s “Mono Kickstart” program

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Novell today introduced the Mono(R)
Kickstart program to provide for the first time developer support to
organizations using Mono for new application development or migrations. Mono
is a comprehensive open source development platform based on the.NET
framework that allows IT and independent software vendor developers to build
Linux* and cross-platform applications (MacOS X*, IBM S/390* and Sun
Solaris*) with unprecedented productivity, using popular programming
languages such as C#, Java* and VB.NET. The Mono project is a community
initiative sponsored by Novell. As a result of the Mono Kickstart program, it
is now far easier to build and develop applications on Linux and other
platforms, allowing developers to get software to market faster and more cost
effectively.

Link: lwn.net