Novell will be delivering a Linux-based version of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-browser, rich Internet application technology within six months. Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell, said at the XML conference here Dec. 5 that his team wanted to ensure that Linux would not be a second-class citizen should Silverlight take off.
Silverlight is Microsoft's response to Adobe's Flash technology, which is essentially ubiquitous on desktops and devices. He also shed a little more light on the internal workings of the business agreement between Novell and Microsoft regarding <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2228651,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">theLinux version of Silverlight, known as "Moonlight."</A> The two companies announced plans in September to work together on Moonlight.
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