Hi all,
Do someone know if the .NET enviroment will be available on machine like SUN
or other platforms diffrent from NT ?

Thanks to all

I have no information about concrete projects, but the documentation explicitly
says that the common language runtime has been designed to allow this.
Well, that's the theory. I remember that they said the same about COM. Microsoft
itself does not support COM/COM+ on non-Microsoft operating systems. Today there
are some companies offering support for DCOM/Win32 API on Solaris, AIX, etc. But
the problem is that I dont know of any program who really is using this (except
of the IE for Unix, which is really unstable and slow on HP-UX). Maybe s.o. has
an answer to this: What programs based on COM exist on Unix and how many years
had these companies to wait for a stable and fast implementation of DCOM on
Unix?? Lastly you should not expect that a .NET environment on other platforms
will cost you nothing. You will have to pay for every OS you plan to use, for
every OS version and so on.

Hi Felice,

In theory, it's a good possibility (like ODBC on Linux, or crossplatform
100% pure Java), and I love to see it. However, I wouldn't hold my
breath (at least not for the next year or so). Right now, let's see if
the final release of .NET will work fine on all Win32 platforms (and
that includes Win95 clients and Whistler ;-)

Groetjes,
          Bob Swart (aka Dr.Bob - www.DrBob42.com)

--
drs. Robert Erik (Bob) Swart, Consultant, Delphi Trainer & Author
Kylix/Delphi OplossingsCentrum (KDOC) -- A PinkRoccade nv Company

In theory it is possible to write a CLR (like the Virtual Machine for Java)
for any platform. I really doubt Microsoft will ever do this but for any
third party vendor it's a real possibilty. It's a lot of work though but let
me know when you finish one ;) cause I would love to run my C# code on a
UNIX platform.

Niklas Morth
Software Engineer

IBM has stated an intention to implement it on their platforms.  This
shouldn't be difficult since they have already accomplished something like
it on the AS/400.  ILE (Integrated Language Environment) was implemented in
late 80's - early 90's.  At it's soul is a common type system, an IRP
(Intermediate representation) of the language, and common runtime and
exception-handling services.  Sound familiar?  CLR is not a new concept.

Microsoft's investment in Corel last year involved a possible port of the
CLR to Linux. Microsoft has pulled out of the deal, so it looks like Linux
is off for now.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-22-009-20-NW-CL-MS