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This month the newsletter feature will focus on Mono, from who uses Mono to the Moonlight source code release, you'll get summaries and links to the latest information on the Mono Project (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page). Along with all of this Mono news we'll also cover the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 SDK and the Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide.
So what is this Mono Project (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) anyway?
Mono is an open source project focused on providing developers with the tools needed to develop, deploy and run Microsoft's .NET (http://www.microsoft.com/net/) applications (both server and desktop) on multiple platforms. What .NET provides on Windows platforms, Mono brings to Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Solaris and there is even a Mono implementation for Windows. With support for all of these platforms you can see why Mono is so popular with developers. There are world-class tools for developing .NET applications and many tutorials and samples available, providing developers with what they need to become productive and effective immediately. Mono is being used for everything from rich media applications to 3D game development (see http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono#Who_uses_Mono.3F for examples of how Mono is being used in the "real world").
Okay, you might be asking yourself why the release of the Moonlight source code is so important, source code is released all the time. But the Moonlight source code provides developers access to the technologies that Microsoft is so heavily promoting as the future for the delivery of rich, interactive content and media via the web. Microsoft calls this Silverlight (http://silverlight.net/). As more and more content providers look for way to deliver to users, Moonlight/Silverlight will be what many use as the development and deployment platform of choice.
For more information and links to download Moonlight and its source code visit http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/. Working in collaboration with Microsoft, Novell is delivering Moonlight for Unix systems while Microsoft is developing Silverlight for Windows and Mac. You owe yourself a look at what is happening with all of these technologies.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Software Developer Kit (SDK) is a comprehensive development tool kit that is designed to support developers, as well as independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and independent software vendors (ISVs), in creating applications on or porting them to SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 products. This SDK can be used with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and also SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10.
Go to http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=eRAdQttrkeA~ and download the SDKs for the platforms your developments supports.
Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming + Conferencing are two new team workspace and real-time collaboration additions to Novell's Workgroup product line. These solutions will help boost end-user and team productivity and reduce overall customer costs by improving the everyday business processes people engage in to create, share, discuss and manage information. They also support a new model for technical and business innovation Novell calls “open collaboration,” which describes the open source technology development process that allows customers and partners to participate in product innovation, the actual tools that allow for customer choice, and a way of working to increase team effectiveness and organizational success. Teaming + Conferencing (T+C) is based on the open source project, ICEcore (http://www.icecore.com/). ICEcore is a set of portlets which runs on top of an open source portal called Liferay(http://www.liferay.com).
To get your feet wet with Novell Teaming + Conferencing go to http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=w39gsVF2J-M~ and download an evaluation copy.
The Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide provide software developers with a set of Web Services APIs that allow them to access T+C workspaces, team members information and uploading files etc. Using Java Web Services applications can easily exchange information back and forth with T+C. For access to the Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide go to http://www.novell.com/documentation/team_plus_conf/team10_websvcs/index.html?page=/documentation/team_plus_conf/team10_websvcs/data/bookinfo.html
For more information on Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming + Conferencing visit http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Novell_Teaming .
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