<p>I'm about to write a little GUI app that will sit in the system tray, doing a little FTP and ODBC. </p>

<p>I'd like to develop in Linux, if possible.</p>

<p>What would you recommend?</p>

<p>Thanks a bunch!</p>

Mono by Miguel de Izaca - now owned / sponsored by Novell. It gives you 90% of the .NET framework in Linux.