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Ximian was a company that provided open source desktop applications for Linux and UNIX. Ximian (originally called Helix Code) was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4 2003. Novell intends to continue and extend development of all Ximian's current projects using the Ximian name, whilst adding support for its own Groupwise and ZenWorks software.Ximian both developed new products and "polished" existing open source projects to provide more consistent operation. These projects are packaged into its Ximian Desktop product — a range of integrated open source applications intended to provide all the tools a typical business user might require. So-called "Ximianized" versions of GNOME, OpenOffice.org, and Gaim exist, along with the following completely new applications:
Ximian was a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium and drives the development of MonoMono is the name of an open source project by Ximian to create an ECMA Standard compliant (Ecma-334 and Ecma-335),. NET compatible set of tools, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime, and more, all to run on GNU/Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Win, a free softwareThis article refers to free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For software available free of charge, see Freeware. The term free software refers to software which, once obtained, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. Microsoft .NETNET (note capitalization) initiative is a Microsoft project to create a new software development platform focused on network transparency, platform independence, and rapid application development. The strategy . NET is Microsoft's strategic initiative for replacement.
In addition to Ximian's founders, Novell now employs many open source luminaries, including Dave CampDavid Camp is an open source hacker employed by Novell to work on the GNOME desktop environment. He previously worked at Ximian before it was purchased by Novell in 2003. Nautilus file manager is one of the projects he has worked on. Most recently he, alo, Robert LoveRobert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an open source hacker best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, with work on the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, and virtual memory subsystem. Robert is also active in the GNOME community., Federico MenaFederico Mena Quintero is a mexican computer programmer who wrote the GNOME Canvas while working at Red Hat. He also maintained The GIMP for a while and currently works at Ximian. Along with Miguel de Icaza, Federico founded the GNOME project. He attended, and Joe ShawThomas Joseph "Joe" Shaw (born May 5, 1980) is an open source hacker and early employee of Ximian, which was bought by Novell in August, 2003. Joe is currently a senior engineer at Novell and partner of open source hacker Robert Love. Their proficiency as.
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