Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Google turned up this: 
http://threebit.net/mail-archive/mono-devel-list/msg00380.html

Looks like an IBMer was going to give it a whirl.  You might want to 
contact him if he is still around.

Pete


Josh Diggs wrote:
> Just to take this further afield, has anyone explored the possibility of running mono in PASE (I think this would be the shortest path to getting .NET running on the I)?
>
> Before I get flamed, I'm not advocating this development, just curious to see if someone has done it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:26 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld
>
>
> Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>   
> > OK, I don't mean to start a religious war here, but why? Specifically,
> > and more importantly, _technically_, why is the JVM better. Is it merely
> > the fact that it runs more places, or is there something more?
> >     
> To me, this is an awfully hard one for .Net to trump.  And for this list 
> in particular (midrange tech) it's pretty much unbeatable, since .Net 
> doesn't run on i.
>
> There are other issues, but most of them come down to preferences.
>
> Joe
>