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David is right that Microsoft would never develop for multiple platforms because that would undermine their business model, which is of course, to duplicate efforts and reject international standards (or make Microsoft the standard for everything). Fortunately, Microsoft is losing its grip on that strategy. Back to the topic of Zentity, perhaps it would run in Mono, but then you are caught in a situation where you are reliant on Novell also. However, I think tools should be chosen largely to fit the skillsets of staff. If an institution has a staffing of .NET developers, it makes sense. I can't think of a single person with ASP, .NET experience here, so Zentity *should* never be considered an option at my institution. Ethan On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:48 AM, David Kane <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > So what? > > On 28 April 2010 15:37, Cowles, Esme <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:25 AM, David Kane wrote: > > > > > Why would they write software > > > for a non-microsoft platform? > > > > I'll just point out that other OS vendors (Apple, Sun, Ubuntu, etc.) > write > > software for other platforms. > > > > -Esme > > -- > > Esme Cowles <[log in to unmask]> > > > > "Men feared witches and burnt women." > > -- Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California, concurring > > > > > > -- > David Kane > Systems Librarian > Waterford Institute of Technology > Ireland > http://library.wit.ie/ > [log in to unmask] > T: ++353.51302838 > M: ++353.876693212 >