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SUSE, an Attachmate Business Unit, and Xamarin, a startup co-founded by Mono legend Miguel de Icaza, are partnering to provide continued support for Mono, the open-source .NET Framework.  The agreement grants Xamarin a broad, perpetual license to all intellectual property covering Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android, and Mono Tools for Visual Studio.  Xamarin will assume support for these products and continue to develop and sell them.  Existing customers can purchase upgrades.  Priority support is also available for an extra fee.

Xamarin’s immediate plans for both MonoTouch and Mono for Android is to make sure that the major bugs are fixed.  I just received notification today that a critical bug open in MonoTools since last October has finally been assigned to be fixed.  This is excellent news for .NET developers and provides further evidence that .NET isn’t dead.  Xamarin provides the best way to build fast, native .NET apps on iOS and Android.

SUSE/Xamarin Press Release
Announcement by Miguel de Icaza

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.  Mono enables developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with improved productivity.

Sponsored by Novell, Mono has released version 2.8, which includes full support for C# v4.0, improvements to the optional LLVM-based Mono backend, and more efficient garbage collection.

Download Mono 2.8

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