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For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming
model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts
to take many of its developer tools cross-platform, Microsoft today
announced that it plans to take .NET to both the Mac and Linux soon and that
it is open-sourcing most of the full server-side .NET core stack (not
client-side .NET), starting with the next version.
As Microsoft’s corporate VP of its Developer Division S. “Soma” Somasegar
told me, about 6 million developers are now building applications on top of
the framework. “We’ve been widely successful with that,” he said. But
now the question is, how do you move .NET forward? Microsoft already open
sourced the .NET compiler earlier this year, so it’s not new to this (even
though many pundits may still take a double-take when they hear the words “
Microsoft” and “open source” in the same sentence).
Looking at Microsoft’s recent history, however, today’s announcement doesn
’t come as a total shock. At its Build developer conference earlier this
year, for example, Microsoft announced the .NET Foundation and it’s that
organization that will also shepherd this project.
net_OSS
Unsurprisingly, the company plans to work with the Xamarin-sponsored Mono
community, which already produces a cross-platform open source .NET
framework based on C#. “We will announce this and then take the next few
months working with the Mono community,” Somasegar told me. “We are
working very closely with the Xamarin guys on this.”
The efforts to take .NET cross-platform go hand-in-hand with this open
source announcement, Somasegar argues. “I think of this as the next big
step for .NET,” he told me. Microsoft wants to give .NET a broader platform
and how better to do this than through taking it to new platforms?
Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise group
Scott Guthrie echoed this sentiment when I talked to him a few days ago. He
also noted that developers often tell Microsoft that while they like .NET,
many don’t use it because it’s closed-source and only supports Windows. “
After Wednesday, all the reasons not to use it have disappeared,” he told
me.
Somasegar also says that he believes this will open up a number of new
opportunities for Microsoft’s partners. In a statement today, for example,
Docker’s Head of Business Development and Technical Alliances Nick
Stinemates, notes that he believes that “a central value of the Docker open
platform is application portability to any infrastructure via Docker
containers. The delivery of an open-source .NET runtime across all major OS
platforms means that Microsoft is extending the concept of portability to
the application platform itself.”
Microsoft plans to set up a GitHub repository with the .NET code to get the
conversation started. What exactly the final version will look like still
remains to be seen, but Somasegar hopes that you will soon be able to run a
.NET app in a Docker container in Linux on Microsoft Azure.
To protect developers, Microsoft also today announced a patent covenant that
will cover the Mono project and everybody who implements it.
Whenever a company open sources a certain project, users often worry that
this means the company is giving up on it. Both Somasegar and Guthrie
stressed that this is not the case here at all.
“This is definitely not the end-of-living but hopefully the rebirthing of .
NET to a bigger audience of developers,” Guthrie told me.
With a big announcement like this come big questions — and to answer them,
Somasegar has agreed to answer all of yours in the comments below, starting
at 11:30am PT. So get asking.
For more than 12 years now, the .NET framework has been the programming
model for developers who want to build apps for Windows. But in its efforts
to take many of its developer tools cross-platform, Microsoft today
announced that it plans to take .NET to both the Mac and Linux soon and that
it is open-sourcing most of the full server-side .NET core stack (not
client-side .NET), starting with the next version.
As Microsoft’s corporate VP of its Developer Division S. “Soma” Somasegar
told me, about 6 million developers are now building applications on top of
the framework. “We’ve been widely successful with that,” he said. But
now the question is, how do you move .NET forward? Microsoft already open
sourced the .NET compiler earlier this year, so it’s not new to this (even
though many pundits may still take a double-take when they hear the words “
Microsoft” and “open source” in the same sentence).
Looking at Microsoft’s recent history, however, today’s announcement doesn
’t come as a total shock. At its Build developer conference earlier this
year, for example, Microsoft announced the .NET Foundation and it’s that
organization that will also shepherd this project.
net_OSS
Unsurprisingly, the company plans to work with the Xamarin-sponsored Mono
community, which already produces a cross-platform open source .NET
framework based on C#. “We will announce this and then take the next few
months working with the Mono community,” Somasegar told me. “We are
working very closely with the Xamarin guys on this.”
The efforts to take .NET cross-platform go hand-in-hand with this open
source announcement, Somasegar argues. “I think of this as the next big
step for .NET,” he told me. Microsoft wants to give .NET a broader platform
and how better to do this than through taking it to new platforms?
Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise group
Scott Guthrie echoed this sentiment when I talked to him a few days ago. He
also noted that developers often tell Microsoft that while they like .NET,
many don’t use it because it’s closed-source and only supports Windows. “
After Wednesday, all the reasons not to use it have disappeared,” he told
me.
Somasegar also says that he believes this will open up a number of new
opportunities for Microsoft’s partners. In a statement today, for example,
Docker’s Head of Business Development and Technical Alliances Nick
Stinemates, notes that he believes that “a central value of the Docker open
platform is application portability to any infrastructure via Docker
containers. The delivery of an open-source .NET runtime across all major OS
platforms means that Microsoft is extending the concept of portability to
the application platform itself.”
Microsoft plans to set up a GitHub repository with the .NET code to get the
conversation started. What exactly the final version will look like still
remains to be seen, but Somasegar hopes that you will soon be able to run a
.NET app in a Docker container in Linux on Microsoft Azure.
To protect developers, Microsoft also today announced a patent covenant that
will cover the Mono project and everybody who implements it.
Whenever a company open sources a certain project, users often worry that
this means the company is giving up on it. Both Somasegar and Guthrie
stressed that this is not the case here at all.
“This is definitely not the end-of-living but hopefully the rebirthing of .
NET to a bigger audience of developers,” Guthrie told me.
With a big announcement like this come big questions — and to answer them,
Somasegar has agreed to answer all of yours in the comments below, starting
at 11:30am PT. So get asking.
