title: Real world cost to run WinForm apps on mono?
body: <p>My company has an existing established WinForm application which in running on WinXP.  The application does alot of sound processing using DirectSound.</p>
  
  <p>My company would like to evaluate Mono, as an alternative on a per workstation cost to Vista/Win Server 2008.</p>
  
  <p>I've heard that different estimates, ranging from 'it will work easily on Mono' to 'it could take months of recoding in certain cases to get a WinForm app to run with Mono on Linux'.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a good real world experience with this?
  A good link reference?
  I would like to get a better idea before I commit to testing.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>