Oracle Pulls Plug On OpenSolaris Development Work

Oracle apparently has decided to shut down the OpenSolaris project, the open-source version of the Solaris
The news that OpenSolaris is being discontinued came in an internal memo to Oracle developers late last week that was leaked to the OpenSolaris mailing list and posted online.
The memo said Oracle would devote its development resources to Solaris 11, the next release of the commercial version of the Unix-based operating system. Last week John Fowler, Oracle's executive vice president of systems, outlined the time table under which Solaris 11 will ship next year.

Novell upgrades Mono Tools for Visual Studio

Novell this week unveiled Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, which enables development of Microsoft .Net applications for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X from within Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE.
Built as an add-in module for Visual Studio, Mono Tools for Visual Studio enables .Net developers to leverage existing skill sets to create applications for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. Version 2.0 features backing for Mac OS X and support for Mono on Windows. In turn, developers can now test and debug on Mono without the overhead of switching between operating systems.

"It's easier to debug against the local instance. A .Net developer can now start working on making an application Mono-compatible without having to first set up a Linux or Mac target," said Joseph Hill, Novell product manager for Mono, in an email explaining benefits of Mono support on Windows.