Wouldn't it be nice to write an application once and have it run on multiple platforms? Well, according to Linuxdevices.com , a company called Transitive Technologies just showed off a product they call Dynamite that does just that. At the Embedded Processor Forum , Transitive showed off a pair of UNIX applications running on a pair of identical MIPS-based Cobalt Cubes, each running Cobalt Linux. On one machine, the two applications were running native, having been compiled for the MIPS processor and Cobalt Linux. On the second machine, the applications were precompiled for X86 on a Red Hat Linux distribution, and were run via the Dynamite translator. All seemed to go well. So well, in fact, that Transitive is now applying for six different patents related to Dynamite.