Looks like Novell's MonoTouch C#/.Net Framework Port for the iPhone is Strictly Business Focused

I mentioned Novell’s MonoTouch yesterday which ports the Open Source Mono Project that lets developers build iPhone apps using the C# programming language with Microsoft’s .Net Framework…

http://monotouch.net/

Based on Novell’s MonoTouch pricing…

$399 – Personal Edition
$999 – Enterprise (1 license)
$3999 – Enterprise (5 licenses)

…it is clearly aimed at current Microsoft Windows developers who want to quickly port existing applications to the iPhone. I can’t imagine developers switching from Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to MonoTouch mostly because of the price, but also because it adds an additional layer of abstraction to potentially slow down and bloat up apps.

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