Mono Tools lets Visual Studio developers use the Microsoft IDE for cross-platform application development

Novell makes more evident what was obvious from the very start - that it puts Microsoft's interests ahead of anything else

New evidence confirms that Novell is still advancing interests that are seemingly conflicting to its own

Novell's dependence on Microsoft increases. Novell is not only giving up on tools which compete against Microsoft’s [1, 2, 3, 4]. It actively embraces Microsoft’s vision of technology and helps Microsoft in a variety of different ways.

Rudeness from proponents of Mono, signs of hostility, and further betterment of Visual Studio for Windows

To date, Novell has had strong usage of its online SUSE Studio Linux appliance development service, with over 250,000 software appliances built. Even with that success, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) sees a need to expand the effort with a new SUSE Appliance Toolkit providing an on-premises version of SUSE Studio, as well as a new Lifecycle Management Server to manage appliance updates.

Novell brings its Mono development tools to proprietary platforms and ignores the TomTom-imposed warning signs

Novell and Mono, SourceForge and Windows, and other attempts to bend FOSS the Microsoft way.

Novell delivers new releases of Mono and MonoDevelop, making .NET on Linux easier and Windows-based development for Linux deployment faster.