This isn't news, we did this a long time ago, and reaped the benefits. In an upcoming release of BBEdit we hope to do it again. We worked closely with the development team, and found lots of ways we could deliver the power of both environments thru an HTTP interface. These features became standards, and are supported by all web servers and content environments on the Mac. We can do it again, with a broader view now that we're also on Windows.
Websites are LANs.
Thru HTTP and XML we can build incredible bridges that cross environments. We have our hooks into the Microsoft developer world, probably more than any of the Unix-centered tools and environments can, because this is our focus. Over time we will have more hooks, and we hope to even play a role in defining new system-level hooks. So here's my offer to the Linux, Apache and Perl worlds. We need a standard runtime environment for dynamic websites that we can target from our Mac and Windows content management system.