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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Ximian is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Ximian scores 5.0/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Ximian — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
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