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Yeah, I think the Helix/Gnome people are looking into it. Icaza is the guys name? The thing is, .NET is a lot of technologies. Teh "open source" part that Icaza is working on is the CLR, so Windows apps written in VB.NET or C# SHOULD run on Linux as if they are native (all CLR is is a MS version of java runtime). The other parts of .NET are already open source: XML, SOAP, TCP/IP, etc. There really is nothing extraordinary about .NET. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Jensen" <brad@elstore.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Web enablement options (previously private) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <thomas@inorbit.com> > To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:13 PM > Subject: RE: Web enablement options (previously private) > > > > On Fri, 28 December 2001, "jt" wrote: > > > > > I WILL TAKE ANY AND ALL COMER'S THAT THEY WON'T RUN.. > UNCHANGED SOURCE.. 20 > > > YEARS FROM NOW... > > > > > > (I'll "bet dollars to donuts" on that one...) > > > > Sure, but a dozen donuts costs $3 today and will cost $15 then. > You'll probably profit by losing. > > > > Tom Liotta > > Actually, the only code I have that runs unchanged from 1985 is > assembler code I wrote on the PC. > > Microsoft is discovering some of its own inertia. The three > million VB programmers are less than ecstatic about being shoved > into an 'upgrade'to VB.NET that is really a different, C-based > language, tons of stuff breaks. > > I have no intention to upgrade. > > I read a short mention that somebody is creating an open source > version of .NET. > > I do know a guy who programs COBOL on PCs, Unix, and sometimes > minis with the same code. > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >
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