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When Chris, Kevin and Ryan approached Alex and I to develop Wufoo Unplugged, a desktop application to view Wufoo form data offline, we ended up choosing .NET because in addition to it offering the features we needed like multi-threading, file system access and pre-built Lucene libraries, it was also the technology that Alex and I were the most familiar with at the time. We weren’t officially part of the Wufoo Team then (Unplugged was basically our hiring interview) and so we weren’t asked to develop in an environment outside our comfort zone. As you can imagine, choosing a Windows-only solution left a number of Mac users feeling a bit left out. And so hoping to help out other developers thinking of creating their own desktop applications that will work on both PCs and Macs for their web services, I thought I’d do some research into the current state of cross-platform Rich Application Architectures and present my findings here.