WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mono® Project,
an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, today announced the
preview availability of Moonlight™ 4, an open source Linux*
implementation of Microsoft* Silverlight*. Having delivered
Moonlight with full support for all prior version of Silverlight
and preview support for Silverlight 4, including support of
Microsoft-licensed codecs for Silverlight 3 and 4, today's
announcement marks the first time that Moonlight has shipped a
release consistent with many popular sites built for the latest
release of Silverlight. This release gives Firefox* and Google
Chrome* users on Linux access to the latest Silverlight content and
enables developers to take advantage of the newest features of
Silverlight on all platforms.
"We are always working to provide solutions that software
development teams need to be productive and deliver applications
quickly and cost effectively," said Nikolay
Atanasov, RadControls for Silverlight Product Manager at
Telerik. "With the availability of the Moonlight 4 beta, and its
compatibility with Telerik RadControls for Silverlight, developers
now have even greater flexibility to rapidly develop applications
for Silverlight, while being able to build and deliver their
applications on time and in budget."
Developers can also leverage the Silverlight 3 APIs and numerous
Silverlight 4 APIs, including support for the H.264 video codec,
hardware acceleration of graphics rendering using the GPU, 3-D
transformation and pixel shaders. It also extends web browser
support to Google Chrome and contains numerous performance and
memory management improvements. In addition, users can run
Silverlight applications as desktop applications on Linux in both
"sand-boxed" and full-trust modes using Moonlight's unique
mopen.
"The latest release of Moonlight is another important step
forward in creating a compatible open source implementation of
Silverlight," said Brad Becker,
director of product management at Microsoft Corporation. "By
enabling support for Linux, Moonlight 4 gives Silverlight
developers the tools they need to develop for the platforms they
want to."
Miguel de Icaza, Mono project
founder and Developer Platform vice president at Novell, said, "Our
team has worked tirelessly to get Moonlight to version parity with
Silverlight 3 – finally bringing the latest development and
delivery capabilities for visually-rich applications to Linux. Now
that we've reached this milestone, we are looking to complete the
4.0 APIs."
To download the Moonlight 4 beta or learn more about the
project, visit http://go-mono.com/moonlight. For more information
about open source projects that Novell sponsors and contributes to,
visit http://www.novell.com/linux/opensource.
Moonlight is part of a technical collaboration announced by
Novell and Microsoft in September of 2007. Microsoft has provided
Novell with access to its test suites and specifications for
Silverlight, and provides Novell end users of Moonlight with free
access to the Microsoft Media Pack, a set of licensed media codecs
for video and audio.
About the Mono Project
The Mono Project is an open source initiative sponsored by
Novell to develop a UNIX* version of the Microsoft .NET development
framework. Hosted at www.mono-project.com, the Mono project
provides all the necessary software to develop and run .NET client
and server applications on Linux, Solaris*, Mac* OS X*, Windows and
Unix. Mono has an active and enthusiastic contributing community
and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of
Linux applications.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in intelligent
workload management, helps organizations
securely deliver and manage computing services across physical,
virtual and cloud computing environments. We help customers reduce
the cost, complexity, and risk associated with their IT systems
through our solutions for identity and security, systems
management, collaboration and Linux-based operating platforms. With
our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to
work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.
Novell, the Novell logo, the N logo, and Mono are registered
trademarks and Moonlight is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in
the United States and other
countries. (openSUSE, SUSE, and Banshee do not need to appear in
the credit statement, as they were not used in the body of the
press release). *All third-party trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.