On Monday, Ximian (Gnome) will announce a system called "Mono", which is supposed to be compatible or competing with MS .NET. Recall that Gnome Gnotices changed the title of our announcement last year that said Piper is a GNU/GNOME alternative to .NET. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with and if there are any similarities to Piper. Also, I'm giving a talk about Piper at the OMG meeting/OiBC conference on Tuesday. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin --