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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.
-
-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].
-
-. Rumour has it that it is so Novell can
have a decent Groupwise
client for Linux.
+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
.
