Mono got me out of a jam about 7-8 years ago. Had a Gentoo server that needed a Perl application to fetch data from a MS SQL Server. FreeTDS just would not co

Mono got me out of a jam about 7-8 years ago. Had a Gentoo server that needed a Perl application to fetch data from a MS SQL Server. FreeTDS just would not compile, but Mono installed just fine. I wrote Inline::MonoCS [0] and everything Just Worked. [0] http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Inline-MonoCS-1.000/lib/Inline/MonoCS.pm http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/Inline-MonoCS-1.000/lib/Inline...