Curl announced today that we are out of beta and shipping a full release of the RTE for the Mac OS X!  And not just the Intel version but the PowerPC version as well! 

As a Mac user myself I'm pretty excited about this because it seems obvious to me that the Mac is making strong in-roads at the Enterprise.  Within the next 10 years the desktop will be pretty evenly devided, in terms of market share, between Windows, Mac and Linux.  People will be much less concerned with the type of operating systems than with the type of runtime.  Today there are a couple of runtimes that appear to have a bright future: Curl (of course), Adobe AIR, and Silverlight (when it migrates from RIA to desktop). There are, of course, others such as Google Gears and Mozilla Prism and they may also survive but my bets are on the three amigos: Curl, Air, & Silverlight.  I talk more about the deminishing importance of the desktop operating systems and the rise of the fit client platforms in the article The Next Battle for the Desktop.  Kudos to the Curl engineers for making this happen!!

The full press release is here.

You can download the Mac RTE from here.

+ As a clarification this is the RTE not the IDE - we may make the IDE available for the Mac in the future but for no its supported on Windows and Linux. +