Novell unveils commercial solution to facilitate development of .NET applications for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS

Posted on: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:06:00 EST


Symbols: NOVL
Nov 10, 2009 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) --
NOVL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Enterprise software company Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL) announced on Tuesday
the availability of its commercial solution to facilitate the
development of .NET applications for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X within
Microsoft Visual Studio.

The company said the new add-in module for Microsoft's Visual Studio
integrated development environment (IDE), Mono Tools for Visual Studio,
enables C# and .NET developers trained in Visual Studio to stay within
their preferred IDE and use their existing skills and .NET ecosystem of
code, libraries and tools to develop or port applications to Linux,
UNIX or Mac OS X.

By reducing the time and costs of multi-platform development, the
solution allows corporate developers, independent software vendors
(ISVs) and development services providers to easily expand their market
opportunities and deployment options.

The solution offers the following features: development and porting of
.NET applications to Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X with analysis, testing,
debugging and deployment from within Visual Studio; creation of turnkey
virtual appliances and software appliances for .NET applications using
integrated appliance building functionality; integrated porting
analysis tools; ability to run and debug applications in Mono within
Visual Studio to isolate incompatibilities between Mono and .NET and
between Linux and Windows; as well as automated packaging for SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE.

Three product editions are available: Professional Edition (individual)
for USD99, Enterprise Edition (one developer in an organisation) for
USD249 and Ultimate Edition for USD2,499, which provides a limited
commercial license to redistribute Mono on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
and includes five enterprise developer licenses. All product versions
include a one-year subscription for product updates.

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