Title 
State of the Mono project

Abstract 
The Impact of the project is found in the possibilities for software development as well as the controversy of an open source project implementing Microsoft s technologies. Although the CLI and the C# language are ECMA standards ADO.NET and ASP.NET are Microsoft technologies, and Microsoft s CEO Steve Ballmer expressed his doubt that mono will succeed without copyright infringements to a German industry magazine. On the other hand it s advantageous to the global software community if a superior infrastructure like .NET is available on any platform Microsoft itself released a version of the CLI for FreeBSD (aka Rotor). As a founder of the GNOME desktop project Miguel de Icaza will most likely lobby to deploy the mono infrastructure within the GNOME system, this in turn will increase the economies of scale for any .NET application to run on Windows and Linux desktops. 

The Mono Project is an innovative open source approach to implement the same infrastructure found in Microsoft s .NET for the next generation computer software architecture on operating systems other then windows. Mono itself is focused on implementing a virtual machine, justin- time compiler and a class loader; all three are forming the CLI. The class library will be designed to run all languages supported by the CLR. Finally mono will provide a compiler for the C# programming language. Additional efforts close to the project are aiming to provide other parts of the .NET framework as ASP.Net and ADO.NET as well as Windows. Forms and GTK# as GUI API's.

Speaker's biography 

Miguel de Icaza is the CEO of Ximian, the company hosting and founding the mono project. He s also a founder of the GNOME Linux Desktop, for which Ximian develops solutions as well as provides services and support. As the founder of mono he has been criticized by some open source representatives for allowing Microsoft to enlarge it s reach to Linux. Mr. Icaza clearly focuses successfully on combining business goals with traditional open source ideas.