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ASP.NET Website on Linux? – Mono is your solution

Imagine you have a team of .NET professionals and you get a requirement for a website where your customer want to stick with low cost linux/apache hosting solutions. But you are not hiring new talent or training the team on technologies such as J2EE. Does this look like a roadblock ? –  The answer is No – the open source Mono Framework is your solution ! 

Well, we have used this model and it works pretty fine.  There were glitches initially but the framerok is being stabilized as the new versions are out. 

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

Cross Platform? : This framework is not just for Linux.  Mono runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Sun Solaris, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3, Apple iPhone. It also runs on x86, x86-64, IA64, PowerPC, SPARC (32), ARM, Alpha, s390, s390x (32 and 64 bits) and more. Developing your application with Mono allows you to run on nearly any computer in existance.