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-The good guys
.
+An American company originally called Helix Code, founded by MiguelDeIcaza (the original architect/author of most of GNOME) and Nat Friedman.
The name is a play on "Simian", and they have a strong monkey theme in their branding
.
-An American company originally called Helix Code
, founded
by MiguelDeIcaza (
the original architect
/author of most
of GNOME)
and Nat Friedman
.
+[Ximian] spent a lot of time making [GNOME] look pretty
, by working on good themes, and also cleaning up applications to make them workable and useful. They wrote applications they believed should exist that weren't around, eg
the [Evolution] groupware
/MailClient and the RedCarpet channel-based package distribution system. They were also responsible for a [Free] commercial version
of [
GNOME] called XimianDesktop,
and [Mono]
.
-The name is
a play on "Simian"
, and they have
a strong monkey theme
in their branding
.
+They were purchased by [Novell] in August 2003, apparently in order to have
a decent !GroupWise client for Linux
, and for which
a connector for [Evolution] is now
in heavy development
.
-Responsible for a commercial version of
[GNOME
], which
is still released freely as XimianDesktop, and a groupware client for GNOME called
[Evolution]
. Ximian are
also working on
[Mono].
-
-They were purchased by Novell in August 2003
. Rumour has it that it is so Novell can have a decent Groupwise client for Linux
.
+Use this large unofficial
[Ximian Forum|http://www.nabble.com/Ximian-f1406.html
] to browse or search the Ximian projects' discussions. The forum
is hosted by
[Nabble|http://www
.nabble.com] which archives
Ximian projects' mailing lists into a centralized forum. You can post questions, search for answers, or browse and survey what the community is talking about. You can
also drill into the child project forums such as
[Mono|http://www.nabble.com/Mono-f1367.html
], [Gaim|http://www
.nabble
.com/Gaim-f1307.html], [Evolution|http://www.nabble.com/Gnome---Evolution-f1297.html]
.
