Re:Not your normal start up (Score 1)

Actually, Crossgain was not developing a competitor to BizTalk, they were founded to port .NET to another (non Windows) OS.

The problem with this is (as reported in Business 2.0), is that the ex-Microserfs intended to release their version for OS ? before .NET went gold on Windows.

And oh, yeah... they also took every line of .NET source code they could burn onto CDs with them. (One of the 'heavy hitters' was in charge of .NET - can we say 'Vice President'?)

While some might not see this as a big deal (we know who I'm talking about), I don't think Bill and Co. care for the idea of releasing .NET for OS ? before the Windows version hits RTM.