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Mono Embraced by XMPP Instant Messaging Vendors
XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Vendors Continue to Choose Mono to Provide Cross Platform .NET Collaboration
Denver, CO - July 21, 2003 - The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF), the organization that builds open application protocols on top of the IETF's extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP), today announced continued vendor adoption of Mono to provide cross platform .NET collaboration.
Recently, vendors Winfessor (<http://www.winfessor.com>) and Tipic (<http://www.tipic.com>), have both announced their support for the Mono platform. Winfessor announced a new version of its instant messaging products that allows enterprises to create custom XMPP instant messaging solutions and Tipic announced the intent to build their next generation of instant messaging software for use with Mono.
"The Mono Project offers a great opportunity for companies such as Winfessor and Tipic to deploy Jabber compliant applications to other platforms quickly and easily," said Peter Saint-Andre of the Jabber Software Foundation. "It also helps the adoption of XMPP as a cost effective standard for messaging and presence across operating environments."
Mono is an open source project that allows developers to build and deploy .NET applications across Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
"Even in its early state, developers are quick to understand that Mono can help them to capitalize on the strengths of the .NET development environment without sacrificing functionality in the applications they want to develop -- and without sacrificing the advantages of UNIX and Linux,"said Miguel de Icaza, CTO of Ximian and founder of the Mono Project. "It is very exciting for me to see XMPP developers embrace the Mono Project as a way to provide more flexibility for their solutions. At the end of the day, the developers will be able to build better applications -- and that is what Mono is all about."
About the Mono Project
Ximian initiated the Mono Project, named the Best Open Source Project at LinuxWorld in January 2003, with the intent to provide developers with a set of open source tools for building .NET applications that run on Windows or any Mono-supported platform, including Linux and UNIX. Mono incorporates key .NET-compliant components, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime just-in-time compiler and a growing set of class libraries, including ASP.NET and ADO.NET. More than 150 developers from around the world contribute to the Mono Project.
For more information about Mono, visit the Ximian web site at <http://www.ximian.com/mono> or the Mono Project web site at <http://www.go-mono.org/>.
About the XMPP Standards Foundation
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) builds open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), and also provides information and infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service providers, and end users. Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging, XMPP is an Internet standard for presence, real-time messaging, and streaming Extensible Markup Language (XML) data that grew out of the popular Jabber open-source technologies first released in 1999. With approval of XMPP by the IETF in 2004, the XSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of its many stakeholders: open-source and commercial developers (including Apple, HP, Nokia, and Sun), organizations large and small (including the U.S. defense establishment and most Wall Street investment banks), Internet and mobile service providers (including Google, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Twitter, and Facebook), and an estimated 50+ million end users worldwide.
For further information, visit <http://www.xmpp.org/> or contact XSF Executive Director Peter Saint-Andre.