RE: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment

>I'm not sure how Microsoft is going to look at a project 
>that basically removes the Windows requirement for .NET
>applications.

Given that _Microsoft_ themselves released "Rotor" last year I don't think
they'll have a problem with it. From the Rotor download page
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0
-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en): 

"This implementation builds and runs on Windows XP, the FreeBSD operating
system, and Mac OS X 10.2. It is released under a shared source initiative."

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:48 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment


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

Joe

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