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Neil Cowburn - OpenNETCF

April 1, 2005

Novell and OpenNETCF.org to bring .NET to Embedded Linux

Today Novell will announce their acquisition of OpenNETCF.org. This deal will not only ensure the future development of the Smart Device Framework on the Windows CE platform, but also under Embedded Linux, PalmOS, and a proprietory BSD-based platform that is yet to be disclosed.

The OpenNETCF.org team will primary focus on the development of a rationalized version of Mono (preliminarily named, Compact Mono), initially targetting the Embedded Linux platform. It is hoped that this will open up the possibility of cross-platform embedded development on a whole host of platforms and devices.

In a short press release to the media this morning, Miguel de Icaza, VP Developer Platform at Novell,  released the following statement:

"OpenNETCF.org is key to Novell's business strategy in the embedded space. We realise the potential benefits for our customers to be able write code in C# and run this under Mono not just on a server or desktop machine, but also on PDAs, smartphones, games consoles or even internet toasters. When it comes to .NET technologies and knowing the constraints that embedded devices have, the OpenNETCF.org folks really know their stuff. And we just had to have them."

Friday, April 01, 2005 1:24:55 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
That would be so sweet! We could get *paid* for what we do?!
ctacke
Friday, April 01, 2005 3:42:42 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Wow, that's really great to hear.

Congratulations guys. You deserve it.
skicow
Friday, April 01, 2005 4:12:01 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Wouldn't this be April Fools day? Just stating the obvious of course..

And where can I get me one of them there "internet toasters" so I can write some cool mono.cf apps for it :)
ngilsenan
Friday, April 01, 2005 4:25:15 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
And the obvious was well stated :) It is an April Fools joke (sorry, Steve!)

The Internet Toaster would be cool, I think. Imagine having the ability to scan the bread wrapper with the toaster, which then calls a web service to received the recommended cooking time from the baker. Perfect toast every time! I think I'm onto a winner there.
Neil
Monday, April 04, 2005 4:12:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
D'oh!

You got me, hook line and sinker with that one.

I thought the 'Internet toaster' was just their PR guy going on about stuff like all PR guys tend to do.

Check it out, a real internet toaster:
http://livinginternet.com/i/ia_myths_toast.htm
skicow
Friday, April 08, 2005 3:32:16 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Compact Mono? Do you want use Gtk# in Compact Mono?
But I want to use System.Windows in Compact Mono.
aawolf
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