[It's a kind of Mag'ic]

Yesterday i have listened to very interesting presentation that featured  .NET and the compatible open source version – MONO

I was impressed with the tools used - Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer are pretty fast and easy to use ( unlike Vista ;-). Comparing to eclipse they were really fast.

Mono aims to be 100% compatible with .NET compiles C#, Java, boo and other languages to bytecode that is run with mono. Same compiled code can be run on windows/linux/MacOS/etc.  Also windows forms can be used on Linux without modyfying the codebase.

You can find more information on the official site http://mono-project.com and also on some community sites like http://gotmono.com