VB (especially .NET) developers will want to check this one out: REAL Basic standard edition - Free Offer for Visual Basic Users. The standard edition of REAL Basic normally sells for $99.95. The professional version of REALbasic sells for $299.95.

I have seen, but never used, Real Basic before. Real Basic offers the ability to port Visual Basic applications in Mac, Linux and Windows (but the free standard edition only allows one platform — cross-compiled applications will only run for five minutes and then expire after 30 days) and does not require the bulky .NET runtime.

Hank Marquis offers a detailed whitepaper for how to port VB applications to Linux and Mac OS X. This cross compiled capability makes REAL Basic, really attractive to Visual Basic developers.

Thanks Chris Pirillo.

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