FYI - If you are curious, Mono .compatibility with .NET can be found here:
http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility
Most features are covered up to .NET 4.0, excluding some items like the
Entity Framework and WPF, which is pretty amazing to me. I agree with
Richard that .NET is a great platform for developers. It would be a great
thing if Mono came to IBM i IMO, at least on the web development side of
things. I have been looking at mobile app. development recently for an
upcoming project, and Mono seems like a great direction to explore as it
can target Android, iOS and Windows Phone, as well as Mac OS, Linux and
Windows, using native GUI toolkits. We are starting to use Mac OS and iOS
devices a lot more in addition to Windows. So it would be nice to have a
cross-platform tool to target all OSs. Mono also supports ASP.NET and
ASP.NET MVC. So theoretically high code reuse is possible with the right
architecture (e.g., MVC or MVP patterns). Based on the number of recent
books in print, it seems like Mono also has some momentum in the (mobile)
developer community.
Blake
midrange.com
