Ximian

Ximian was a Boston-based open source software company founded on October 19, 1999 by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman -- originally incorporated as International GNOME Support, then Helix Code, and renamed Ximian in January 2001. It advanced the GNOME desktop, built the Evolution email and collaboration client and Ximian Connector, ran the Red Carpet software-update service, and launched the Mono open source .NET implementation. Surfaced via the Battery Ventures portfolio, Ximian was acquired by Novell on August 4, 2003 to strengthen Novell's enterprise Linux business; after Attachmate acquired Novell in 2011 the founders went on to create Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016). Ximian no longer operates: www.ximian.com still resolves on Novell infrastructure but permanently redirects every path to novell.com/linux/ximian.html, which forwards to suse.com -- there is no live website, developer portal, or public API surface. This profile is retained as a historical identity record.

Ximian is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Open Source, Linux, GNOME, and Email.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Ximian
description: 'Ximian was a Boston-based open source software company founded on October 19, 1999 by Miguel de Icaza and Nat
  Friedman -- originally incorporated as International GNOME Support, then Helix Code, and renamed Ximian in January 2001.
  It advanced the GNOME desktop, built the Evolution email and collaboration client and Ximian Connector, ran the Red Carpet
  software-update service, and launched the Mono open source .NET implementation. Surfaced via the Battery Ventures portfolio,
  Ximian was acquired by Novell on August 4, 2003 to strengthen Novell''s enterprise Linux business; after Attachmate acquired
  Novell in 2011 the founders went on to create Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016). Ximian no longer operates: www.ximian.com
  still resolves on Novell infrastructure but permanently redirects every path to novell.com/linux/ximian.html, which forwards
  to suse.com -- there is no live website, developer portal, or public API surface. This profile is retained as a historical
  identity record.'
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