title: .NET on Windows to Mono on Ubuntu
body: <p>I am looking at a possibility to change my ASP.NET 2.0 application to the Mono framework. I have used the Mono Migration Analyzer tool and it does detect some P/Invoke and interop dependencies. </p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <p>1) We use Excel interops and on Linux we are looking to use StarOffice/OpenOffice instead. Is there an easy way of substituting Excel with StarOffice? (I know it sounds bizarre, but I just don't want to miss out in case anyone has done it already.)</p>
  
  <p>2) LDAP authentication: What could be the best alternative in Ubuntu (or an other flavour of Linux)?</p>
  
  <p>3) Is there an Ajax framework for Mono? Preferably with similar controls as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET_AJAX" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Atlas</a>?</p>
  
  <p>I hope I am not too ambitious here..</p>