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Jon Udell says that VMs are the platform, not the underlying OS:

Eclipse runs on the JVM, Chandler runs on Python, various things run on the CLR (and Mono), Longhorn apps will run on the CLR. One way or another, your platform will be a VM. Its capabilities, class libraries, OS bindings, and language bindings will matter more to you than the underlying OS or language.

Yet another way that Lips and Smalltalk presaged the future...