Salut Jürg, let me do two "stack oriented" replies and pop some comments ...

devellopment in software (oberon is neither commercial nor completely free)

to my knowledge licensing changed and its now a BSD-like license, which is more than free: You can base soemthing commercial on it without requirement to publish the sources. This is the type of open source licence MicroSoft prefers :-)

the benefit it would give over native oberon. So I kept waiting for the next release of native oberon, announced for early 2003... (Do I have to tell you, how it feels to read

absolutely correct. But the last two/three people, who maintained it, apparently left ETHZ and could not find the time to do the maintainance in their spare time. I myself did become maintainer of a last attempt to setup a source-forge project, but I also do not have much time and it would need a bit more thinking ... switching to subversion (to handle the binary contents) and more but that even needs more time if you're not fluent in these tools (CVS & subversion) ... just some quick thoughts ... regards -- Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3 Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de