>Hi Ken,
>
>In skimming through the Microsoft road map for dotnet, I did not see any indication that Microsoft plans to port the .NET Framework to other platforms like Linux, Apple, and Unix.
>
>It would also be nice if Visual Studio were port so that development could also be performed on multiple platforms.
>
>Will Microsoft at some point make dotnet available across all major OS/s to provide interoperability as was envisioned by the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) which is with ECMA.
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/
>
>Regards,
>
>LelandJ

Leland,

Mono is a *nix implementatoin of the .NET Framework, I have heard some very good things about it.

www.go-mono.com

Check that out, I doubt MS will ever port it to another OS, then people would have to buy Windows. :)

Morgan