Hugo,
lol yes in Linux I was thinking about the Mono project, bit Mono is just a development suite just like VS.NET is (where you create your app).
.NET languages (C#, VB.NET et.al.) do not compile directly to executables, just like Java doesn't compil directly to executables. So you need the JIT compiler (Java does too, but I can't think of what it called). In short you need the .NET runtime files in order to run a .NET app on even a Windows machine. Java also needs runtime files installed in order to run. So the question is are runtime files (for different platforms) 3rd party products.

Just my $0.02


>Really Einar?
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>How would you run a .NET application in Linux without a 3rd party product (MONO)? or how would you run it in Solaris/Sparc? How would you run it in any other OS?
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>>Well that would throw VFP right out of the contest, but .NET would still remain in the contest. So now it would be a Java vs. .NET contest, I think there has been a few of those contest before.
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