Preface
Xamarin is built on top of Mono, an open source version of the .NET framework, based on the ECMA standards. Xamarin brings you a set of tools that includes its own C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime (CLR). The Mono framework source project is maintained by Xamarin, a San Francisco-based company (formerly by Novell and originally by Ximian). The prime intention of the Mono project was to make the .NET platform compatible with other non-Windows platforms such as Linux.
After Attachmate acquired Novell in April 2011, the future of the Mono platform was pushed into dark. A few months later, Miguel de Icaza, a former Novell employee, founded a company called Xamarin and declared to continue using the Mono platform for commercial software ...
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