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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.

[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].

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.

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].

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Last edited on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:01:49 pm by "DesKoop"

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