Re: Mono on IBM i - Porting Mono to AIX and IBM i

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, John!  But respectfully that's exactly the answer I was trying 
to avoid.  I'm a programmer, I've used scads of development environments 
over the years, from assembly language to 4GLs aplenty.  I'm fluent in a 
number of languages (EDL anyone?), competent in several more, and can 
write bad code in a dozen or so others.  I'm not looking for a compare 
and contrast of .Net and ILE or the JVM.  I don't really care so much 
about the cool factor or whether it will help me recruit a 20-something 
to work on my ERP package that is nearly as old as he is.

All I want is five applications written in .Net that I can drop onto my 
IBM i that will make my business better - applications that are easier 
to implement via .Net or simple unavailable elsewhere.  THAT is what I 
can use to sell the corner office on the initial expense of getting it 
in-house.

Thanks again for your response!


On 4/16/2019 2:31 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:49 PM Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What I'm looking for are some concrete
> > examples of applications that I, as the manager of a traditional IBM i
> > shop, might want that .Net does better than other tools. I just want to
> > know how a shop that doesn't already have Windows developers would
> > benefit, because adding a new environment is not a zero-cost activity.
> > Gotta have that ROI!  :)
> The answer is, as with so many things, it depends.