Used in conjunction with other platforms is a far cry of being cumulatively more valuable then everything else put together. But I digress.
Agreed Mono does offer a lot of value, it's improved leaps and bounds since Xamarin's split from Novell, they're now well staffed and more focused on delivering their leading best-of-class products. I've witnessed tonnes of improvements to MonoDevelop since their focus on MonoTouch and OSX. From what I've seen at MonkeySpace Xamarin's got plenty more exciting announcements up their sleeve for next year.
With that said, it's making a lot more sense to depend on well supported Mono-compatible libraries so you always have an easy escape option out of the expensive Windows-only cloud provider lock-ins. You'll also have the option to use any of the exciting Linux cloud initiatives on the horizons like: Google Compute Engine / OpenStack.
Agreed Mono does offer a lot of value, it's improved leaps and bounds since Xamarin's split from Novell, they're now well staffed and more focused on delivering their leading best-of-class products. I've witnessed tonnes of improvements to MonoDevelop since their focus on MonoTouch and OSX. From what I've seen at MonkeySpace Xamarin's got plenty more exciting announcements up their sleeve for next year.
With that said, it's making a lot more sense to depend on well supported Mono-compatible libraries so you always have an easy escape option out of the expensive Windows-only cloud provider lock-ins. You'll also have the option to use any of the exciting Linux cloud initiatives on the horizons like: Google Compute Engine / OpenStack.