Mainsoft Releases Grasshopper 2.0 Preview
Mainsoft has released a preview of their 2.0 Grasshopper product.
Grasshopper allows server-side .NET applications to run in a J2EE server. This is done by recompiling the CIL bytecodes into JVM bytecodes and providing a Mono-based set of class libraries for the applications to run.
Major new features in this new release include ASP.NET 2.0 support and Visual Studio based debugging.
Vista DB 3.0 to support Mono
VistaDB has announced that
their upcoming 3.0 release will have complete support for
Mono.
VistaDB is an embeddable SQL database engine built completely in C# and occupying only 600k on disk.
Mono-based MP3 player wins Best-of-Show at CES
The innovative Sansa Connect, is a Mono (and Linux)-based MP3 player. It recently won the "Best of Show" award at CES, see a photo review, Engadget's Review


