Leland,

"Mono" is not the only game in town; Portable.NET (the dotgnu project) has an implementation of the System.Windows.Forms namespace ... which can run on MS Windows.

SAP (which has released their enterprise SQL-based database server into the public domain) recently partnered with MySQL; I see consolidation in the "Dot Net" community as well.

>Every time I mention the window lock-in built into The Dot Net Framework, someone points out the mono alternative. I kind of wish mono didn't exits, because if give a false impression that Dot Net is interoperable, when it really isn't.
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>http://www.linux.org/news/2003/07/14/0007.html
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>LelandJ