.Net on Java

news: Mainsoft launches Visual Studio .NET® for Linux® developer program.

Grasshopper is a Visual Studio .NET® plug-in, which enables you to use C# or Visual Basic .NET® to develop cross-platform ASP.NET applications that run on Linux® and any platform running Apache Tomcat. It is seamlessly integrated inside Visual Studio .NET and incorporates Mainsoft’s patent-pending compiler, which compiles Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) into standard Java bytecode. More...

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i think this is cooool... this is the way for .net web apps to penetrate in the corporate development sector and harness J2EE servers... there are other policy issues in corporate, like open-source adaptation, app server infrastucture etc., wich are no issues with Grasshopper .

- sci