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I'm not sure you can make this assumption. Attachmate seems most interested in cutting Novell down to the bone and extracting whatever value it can from what i
by joeshaw 15y ago
I'm not sure you can make this assumption. Attachmate seems most interested in cutting Novell down to the bone and extracting whatever value it can from what is left. I don't see a whole lot of future growth opportunity from that company in the long term. Just because Mono is not necessarily profitable now doesn't mean that it couldn't be cultivated into a profitable company later. Mono seemed to be recently finding its niche with its Unity (games) licensing and its MonoTouch and Mono for Android products.
(Disclaimer: I used to work at Ximian and Novell with Miguel & others, and contributed some to Mono in the early days.)
- mambodog 15y agoWhat do you mean about Unity? Unity Technologies is a separate company. Do they pay (a significant amount) to licence the tech?
- joeshaw 15y agoUnity uses Mono for scripting in their engine. As it runs on a variety of platforms where replacing the runtime (which is normally LGPL licensed) isn't possible, I believe they have a commercial licensing agreement in place with Novell. I don't know what the terms are of that agreement.