Despite the image that Microsoft has in many areas, the truth is that in recent years the Redmond company has shown an important approach to the world of free software, for example collaborating with the kernel itself. GNU / Linux or even releasing its .NET technology along with several of its main tools, such as Visual Studio o SQL Server.
Precisely now we receive the news that .NET Core will become part of the Red Hat ISO, both the one that companies use on their physical or virtual computers, as well as those offers intended for use in the cloud. For those who are not aware of this technology, comment that it is the one that arrived in August 2014 to replace .NET and be available on the three main platforms.
Such has been the advance of..NET Core that in this short time it has gone from 13.000 APIs or - Application Programming Interface, or application programming interface- in version 1.6, to 32.000 in the current version 2.0, and although it is clear that quantity is not equal to quality If it is true that much progress has also been made in the possibilities offered to achieve excellent portability in applications.
Red Hat is the first distribution of GNU / Linux to offer .NET Core -which comes in the form of YUM packages or containers- but surely other distros will arrive shortly, and although this may be seen with a suspicious look by many fans of free software, the truth is that all this interaction between our preferred operating system and Microsoft can be very helpful as the possibilities increase for developers. Is that if you have multiplatform development tools you can offer apps and services for all types of users, but carrying out that development from GNU / Linux, something that on the other hand is valid for both 'private' developers and companies.
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