DotGNU is a GNU-sponsored project for devising web services, software componentry and the like. It is compatible with Microsoft .NET and similar to the Mono project from Ximian.

The DotGNU developers say that while they realize that the Microsoft .NET platform is a powerful concept, its commercialization by a single company may be threatening the free software movement. There are nonetheless a lot of open source projects being made in C#.

Currently, the main DotGNU software release is Portable.NET, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure that is able to compile and run .NET-compilable languages such as C# and VB.NET, among others, on numerous computing platforms. It is a "language agnostic" platform in the sense that many languages can use one universal set of APIs.

Other DotGNU-affiliated projects include phpGroupWare , a web-based collaborative software suite, and DGEE , a server for web services built upon Portable.NET.

External links

• Project homepage