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

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