Re: Mono on IBM i - Porting Mono to AIX and IBM i

Thanks, John!  But respectfully that's exactly the answer I was trying to avoid.  I'm a programmer, I've used scads of development environments over the years, from assembly language to 4GLs aplenty.  I'm fluent in a number of languages (EDL anyone?), competent in several more, and can write bad code in a dozen or so others.  I'm not looking for a compare and contrast of .Net and ILE or the JVM.  I don't really care so much about the cool factor or whether it will help me recruit a 20-something to work on my ERP package that is nearly as old as he is.

All I want is five applications written in .Net that I can drop onto my IBM i that will make my business better - applications that are easier to implement via .Net or simple unavailable elsewhere.  THAT is what I can use to sell the corner office on the initial expense of getting it in-house.

Thanks again for your response!


On 4/16/2019 2:31 PM, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:49 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I'm looking for are some concrete
examples of applications that I, as the manager of a traditional IBM i
shop, might want that .Net does better than other tools. I just want to
know how a shop that doesn't already have Windows developers would
benefit, because adding a new environment is not a zero-cost activity.
Gotta have that ROI! :)

The answer is, as with so many things, it depends.