I noticed the following today: Mono at the PDC 2008?
My talk will cover new technologies that we have created as part of Mono. Some of them are reusable o
If you are still targetting 1.1, then Mono.Data is an excellent abstraction similar to what DbProvider does in 2.0 ADO.NET
Miguel himself has been spotted on stack overflow: maybe you'll get an answer straight from him.
Here is more details about Mono 2.0
Looking at the roadmap, maybe the new JIT/IL implementation that they're quite proud of; could be the C# Evaluation API / C# Shell. However, I suspect we'll have to wait for PDC to find out... Many of the roadmap items are (quite reasonably) like-for-like comparable with MS equivalents - but maybe they've sneaked in a few extras on the quiet ;-p
Telerik announced will suport Mono in next versions. Maybe will the first thrid-party compnents commercial company support Mono. This is great. MonoDevelop is now supported in Windows. I seen great future for Mono.
there's also the C# eval and C# scripting shell that works only on Mono 2.2 at present...