Mono Gets a Big Commercial Win

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This is relevant given the recent discussion of the commercial
viability of Mono as a .net platform...

Volcker Informatik AG has switched from Microsoft to Mono.

Volcker was traditionally a MS shop using VB & C++ to build it's
enterprise-level user management and authentication products. But when
the city of Munich, one of its largest clients, decided to switch to
Linux, Volcker needed technologies that would work in a cross-platform
environment. It felt it had two options, Java or Mono; it decided to
recode everything in C# using Mono.

In 9 months, it recoded seven million lines of VB and C++ code into two
million lines of C# that run on both Windows and Linux. Even for a
project of this size and complexity, Volcker found Mono "very stable
and easy to learn." It also reduced the testing time by 60%, and of
course saved a bundle on server licenses.

See http://www.novell.com/success/volcker.html for more info...