In the end the decision is quite simple. And it's not a matter of managed vs. unmanaged. It's more a matter of whether I am going to commit myself to the technologies provided by one certain vendor or not.
And the simple answer is no! It took me a lot of time and energy to find out whether I am willing to limit my possibilities and to move to a vendor specific style programming. It should be said that this is not quite correct because in fact C++/CLI - which is what I am talking about - has become a standard. Additionally it should be said that I think that C++/CLI will definitely appaer on an open platform. But for me the problem is the support by the underlying class library. And what I doubt is that platforms like Mono will be 100 percent compatible with M$ .NET. I think they will differ. Once these platforms are established in the open source world I think I will re-consider moving to C++/CLI. But at the moment this is no option for me.
