Microsoft is porting its server-side .NET stack to Linux and Mac OS X, and is making more of that stack available as open source



From All About Microsoft:

Today, the company is adding more pieces of .NET to its open-source list under the MIT open-source license, including the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), the just-in-time compiler, garbage collector and Base Class libraries. Microsoft also is pledging to work with partner Xamarin -- which has made .NET available on other platforms -- to "bring together the Mono runtime work and our work and converge them over time," said Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division.

Microsoft will port the core server-side .NET runtime so that it runs across Windows, Linux and the Mac. This will allow developers to build ASP.NET 5.0 applications that can be deployed and run on Windows, Linux and/or Mac environments. (Microsoft is still expecting most .NET developers to deploy their server-side apps on Windows and Linux, but is providing Mac compatibility mainly for the development environment choice, officials said.)

  Microsoft to open source more of .NET, and bring it to Linux, Mac OS X