Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

And if it were based on Linux, MONO would already run there too :-)

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message: 7
date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:09:36 -0500
from: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

I have no desire to run .NET on a Linux partition. The discussion was
Linux vs. AIX for PASE. Scott pointed out that Linux is the more
popular platform, and that using AIX as the base for PASE limited its
breadth to some degree.

My point was that you can very easily run Linux on an i, thereby making
the huge expanse of Linux software available to the i (Linux, for
example, make a phenomenal platform for things like mail serving).

Running Linux on the i in order to get Mono seems to me just as painful
as it sounds... :)

Joe

In the context of .Net, if you have to spin up a Linux partition to run Mono, might as well plug in a cheap Windows server to run ASP.Net.

We have used both Windows and Linux servers as front end or back end processors for iSeries workloads for quite a few years. It works quite nicely when you have a workload that OS/400 doesn't handle well such as run Jasper Reports really fast.

Although I do have to say with the 32-bit JVM, OS/400 running Java is reaching parity when architected right.