BTW .net has been ditched by M$ for the Vista os.
there you are gentelman. I hope the one who thinks m$ gives good support and will help you out of every thing, will take a serious note of this. so although my answer was "typicle and standard " in any "anti m$ thread ", the reality is that m$ says "ok, that technology on which your software is based will be scrap so better throw it and buy our brand new os which will give you all the requested things (and millins of new bugs)". till date no technology has been diched by open source community and nither by any big brands like redhat, IBM or Novel (and they are not bunch of fun loving hackers).
I know python is used in nokia hand sets and java enabled phones are common. I have the news from Dr. Nagarjuna that linux phones are also coming up.
A780 - I am using one :-)). I already have two gpld apps running on it.
oh really! can you provide some more info on this please? regards. Krishnakant.