ArcGIS Explorer Everywhere: Even on Macs?
In response to a question asked a few days ago at the ESRI UC 2007 about whether AGX would be available on Solaris, the presenter answered "I'm not sure, but I know there has been discussion of making it available on OS X." Seems sensible, since so much of the underlying code works just fine on UNIX variants. The trick would be getting the .NET-based "task" extension model to work properly, but with Mono being relatively mature on the Mac, this seems doable.
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Mono won't be a viable solution for quite a while. They're still stuck at .NET 1.1 with partial 2.0 support.
They have to get .NET 2.0; luckily, adoption of .NET 3.0 has been slow so they have some time.
.NET 2.0 on Mono has a few interesting holes, like the lack of ahead-of-time ("AOT") compilation, but actually the support in the run-time and JIT is entirely there. What would probably be a little more dicey is Windows.Forms support, but even the foundations of that are in place.
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