Re: Would it be possible to PC based tools or packages inside the IFS ???

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you trying to run .NET programs on the i or actual Visual Studio? .NET web apps would be possible with Mono. You would have to port it to the i (recompile, fix compile bugs) but would work otherwise. Visual Studio itself would not make sense to me. Much like RDP cannot be run on the i.

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Mike Wills
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On Feb 19, 2012, at 9:00 PM, thomas burrows wrote:

> I understand a bit about why this idea does not just work immediately.
>
> All PC "not Apple Mac products" run on an INTEL or INTEL like cloned
> processor standard developed by IBM back in 1981.
>
> The iSeries/AS400 "or whatever IBM is calling the platform today" runs on
> the POWER 7
> processor.
>
> But has anyone given any thought to what it would take to be able to run
> any Windows type package, etc from i-Navigator on the iSeries???
>
> What I am thinking about is how would I get Visual Studios 2010 to run on
> the iSeries???
>
> Okay this is a 100,000 foot question. Not even getting into the issues of
> trying to do the SQL connection string back to the original iSeries.
>
> Probably will need some type of emulator to handle this.
>
> Any thoughts from the group about something like this?
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