>Huh? Well, there's SUN, IBM, MS, and Oracle. Who isn't talking cross platform? Sun and Oracle are obvious ones. And didn't IBM and MS colaborate on a SOAP protocall, one that isn't client specific. And what about all those Linux developers MS has been hiring, do you not believe MS is looking at Linux?

I should have qualified that. Binary cross-platform is not big without something like the CLR/JVM. Text via XML is big.