Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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