Analysis: How Moonlight 2.0 Fits into Novell's Linux and Open Source Plans

Novell this week announced the availability of Moonlight 2, essentially an open-source Linux version of Microsoft's Silverlight platform.

Following Attachmate's acquisition of Novell, the entire staff of the Novell-sponsored Mono project team was laid off. Now, Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza has launched a new company called Xamarin, which plans to continue supporting the open source .NET clone Mono and the Silverlight mimic Moonlight, while pushing related development on iOS and Android platforms....

Moonlight 2 offers improved streaming of multimedia content based on the quality of the user's connections, says the project. Version 2 is also said to embed Mono runtime functionality into Moonlight, "enabling developers to target Linux with rich Internet applications using a wide variety of prog ...

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Last week, Miguel de Icaza, a vice-president at Novell, announced the release of version 2.8 of Mono, a project he set up to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.

CloudStack has released its first new code since becoming an Apache incubator project in April, according to top open source cloud headlines this week.

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Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell has announced in a blog posting that he has quit

Now if only de Icaza can follow him :)

Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an "open-source apps store."

Community development in open source software is not just for geeks in sandals nor for niche Linux companies any more. It’s mainstream and it’s here to stay. The recent analysis of companies contributing code to the Linux kernel shows that large companies including Novell, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Texas Instruments are getting serious about engaging [...]