posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:59 AM
by
demiliani
Mono Beta 1: a big success!
I'm really happy to see that the Beta 1 of Mono (the .NET Framework Open Source implementation) in the first few hours of its release it had tallied over 40,000 downloads. 
This is a great success for all the Mono Team (a big interest reveals that the products is great) and simultaneously for the Open Source Community and the Microsoft world, for the great possibility to have a cross platform development tool (a developer may use C#, Python or PHP as their language of choice and deploy on GNU/Linux or Window without issue).
Great! This "cross-platform nature" of Mono could be its key for a big success!