Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icazais a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionScientist
CountryMexico
effort microsoft multiple
.NET was a company-wide branding effort at Microsoft that spanned multiple projects.
people microsoft used
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
desktop existing learning linux migrations
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
care language nice work
We're doing Mono because we care about upgrading the development platform, we care about language independence; and it's very nice two work on.
build nice platform
But .NET is a really nice platform to build on.
love might people
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
build builds continuous extensive process runs test tools
At Novell, we have set up a continuous build process for Mono and its tools that not only builds Mono, but also runs an extensive test suite.
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
running
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
edition later released releasing work
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
people strategic
It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
platform
In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
cases cross linux major mozilla programs projects specific tools wildly work
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.