Mbas gati 4 vjet zhvillimi lëshohet versioni i parë stabël i ekuivalentit opensource të piataformës .NET.
Lajmërimi reciton: "Novell and the Mono project developer community is proud to announce the release of Mono version 1.0, an open source implementation of the .NET framework for use on Linux, Unix, MacOS X and Windows system."