microsoft is trying something new. asp had the downside that there were zero interesting open source apps beyond "hello world". apparently, this shall not happen with .net, and several initiatives suggest that.


is a free ASP.net IDE that features wysiwyg web forms, web services support and much more.

mono
mono is making quick progress. a lot of the core libraries have already been implemented.

rotor
rotor is a complete CLI implementation that will help the mono effort.