When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled
Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform technology.
It appears as if the software giant is making good on that pledge: SD Times
has learned that some of Microsoft¹s top developers have provided technical
guidance for a Linux implementation of Silverlight.
Miguel de Icaza, vice president of develop platforms for Novell and leader
of the Mono project, said that Microsoft offered up its opinion and guidance
on how to build a Mono-based implementation of Silverlight that runs on
Linux. Microsoft is also soliciting contributions to the Silverlight
platform from the open-source community, according to de Icaza.
Scott Guthrie, general manager within the Microsoft Developer Division,
pulled Icaza aside during a Microsoft workshop on dynamic languages to
collaborate on Mono's "Moonlight" implementation of Silverlight, Icaza said,
adding that the Moonlight project was strongly inspired by Guthrie¹s
recommendations.
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