Red Hat Contracts Mono

The kids at Red Hat need to be checked out for Mono because it looks like they've accepted their software infrastructure into the Fedora project. This deal is significant because Mono does business with enemies of Red Hat including Novell and Microsoft. Chris Blizzard, chief of Red Hat's desktop line made the announcement on his CNET quoted Mono dude Miguel de Icaza, the vice president of developer platforms at Novell and Mono guru: "Here was a fork in the road for developers: Should I use Mono or not? We were both pushing different directions. That is gone. That's pretty good for a Linux desktop standpoint." John Stith is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.