Lester Caine wrote:

>
> And there is always the browser based option, and go with PHP. There are
> a number of shells that already have most of what you need ;)
>

if there're webapplications in the game i would say go definitely with asp.net.
the standard assemblies work on both platforms (windows/iis/.net
linux/apache/mono) including firebird-net-provider. developing such an
webapplication is just a relief compared to the old fashinoned scripting
language way.

about the gui thing with multiplatform in mind:
python is very nice, but i would prefer .net/mono over java. winforms are'nt
fully implemented in mono yet, but since you mentioned gtk you should try
gtk-sharp/glade.

regards,
andre