Eclipse, Solaris, Grasshopper - so what's going on here?

Source: Ed Daniel's .net blog...

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It's a well known fact that if you are looking to target western businesses these days then you're going to be designing software that runs in part on the Windows desktop.
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Of recent news and in discussion on a variety of lists is the freebie from Mainsoft: Grasshopper. This free add-in for the VS.NET IDE allows us to deploy to Linux with Mono. The free Eclipse IDE has a Mono plug-in enabling Mono development as well. If you're really into your x-platform stuff then you'll have seen X-Develop and MonoDevelop. We're also witnessing more and more professional and reputable models emerge in the UK for example with the type of messaging that I feel is working for software resellers and developers.

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