RE: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment

[meovino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> Isn't the open source MONO project attempting to do something like this?
>> Might just be for server based apps.

> Maybe some day.  I'm not sure how they're going to get along; I think
it's
> going to depend on how MS views them.  I'm not sure how Microsoft is
going
> to look at a project that basically removes the Windows requirement for
.NET
> applications.

Well, given the heat they seem to be under for being anti-competitive,
you'd *think* they'd let it slide.  But then, this is M$.

> My cynical view was that .NET (or more precisely , C# and the
> CLR) were the MS attempt at a Windows-only Java.

Yeah, I'd heard it described as something like this:

C# = Java for Windows only
CLR = JVM
.NET = J2EE for Windows only

Mike E.