Microsoft Buys Out Miguel de Icaza's Xamarin

Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 24 February 2016 at 02:16 PM EST. 61 Comments
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Microsoft has announced today they are acquiring Xamarin, the company backed by Mono developers including Miguel de Icaza, GNOME's founder.

Xamarin as of late has been focused on Mono-powered .NET solutions for Android and iOS, including their Xamarin Studio IDE. With the company being all about bringing Microsoft's .NET to other platforms, Microsoft has finally went ahead and bought out the company.

Xamarin was formed by Miguel de Icaza in 2011 after his earlier Mono-focused company, Ximian, was acquired by Novell but then the Mono developers were let go when Novell was acquired by Attachmate.

Scott Guthrie, the VP of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise group, announced the acquisition this morning. He explained via this blog post:
Microsoft has had a longstanding partnership with Xamarin, and have jointly built Xamarin integration into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and our Enterprise Mobility Suite to provide developers with an end-to-end workflow for native, secure apps across platforms. We have also worked closely together to offer the training, tools, services and workflows developers need to succeed.

With today’s acquisition announcement we will be taking this work much further to make our world class developer tools and services even better with deeper integration and enable seamless mobile app dev experiences. The combination of Xamarin, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure delivers a complete mobile app dev solution that provides everything a developer needs to develop, test, deliver and instrument mobile apps for every device. We are really excited to see what you build with it.

We are looking forward to providing more information about our plans in the near future – starting at the Microsoft //Build conference coming up in a few weeks, followed by Xamarin Evolve in late April. Be sure to watch my Build keynote and get a front row seat at Evolve to learn more!
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