Does Mono can to connect to Sybase by using Mono.Data.*?
Yes. use Mono.Data.SybaseClient. First of all you have to create a SybaseConnection, and then, from it, use it as any other IDbConnection-based class. Mono and Java Question 99: Why don’t you use Java? After all, there are many languages that target the Java VM. You can get very good tools for doing Java development on free systems right now. Red Hat has contributed a GCC front-end for Java that can take Java sources or Java byte codes and generate native executables; Transvirtual implemented Kaffe a JIT engine for Java; Intel also has a Java VM called ORP. The JVM is not designed to be a general purpose virtual machine. The Common Intermediate Language (CIL), on the other hand, is designed to be a target for a wide variety of programming languages, and has a set of rules designed to be optimal for JITers. Question 100: Could Java target the CLI? Yes, Java could target the CLI, Microsoft’s J# compiler does that. The IKVM project builds a Java runtime that works on top of .NET and on to
