Re: Mono on IBM i (Was Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i)

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Y'all

If you really like this idea, maybe submit a requirement through COMMON, 
or submit a DCR - Richard has a requirement in through our ISV 
relationship, and the more the merrier - AND the more likely to be done.

No promises, of course - I've learned from IBM!

As to COMMON, go to www.common.org and click on the community tab, then 
log in - you can get a user id there or through a LUG if your company is 
a member or some other means - you don't have to be a COMMON member, 
this is more related to iSociety.

Regards
Vern

On 8/2/2012 12:53 PM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> FYI - If you are curious, Mono .compatibility with .NET can be found here:
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility
>
> Most features are covered up to .NET 4.0, excluding some items like the
> Entity Framework and WPF, which is pretty amazing to me. I agree with
> Richard that .NET is a great platform for developers. It would be a great
> thing if Mono came to IBM i IMO, at least on the web development side of
> things. I have been looking at mobile app. development recently for an
> upcoming project, and Mono seems like a great direction to explore as it
> can target Android, iOS and Windows Phone, as well as Mac OS, Linux and
> Windows, using native GUI toolkits. We are starting to use Mac OS and iOS
> devices a lot more in addition to Windows. So it would be nice to have a
> cross-platform tool to target all OSs. Mono also supports ASP.NET and
> ASP.NET MVC. So theoretically high code reuse is possible with the right
> architecture (e.g., MVC or MVP patterns). Based on the number of recent
> books in print, it seems like Mono also has some momentum in the (mobile)
> developer community.
>
> Blake