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Brian - 29 Dec 2004 16:09 GMT

Hello,
A couple of years ago when the whole .NET thing was new I attended a
class about visual studio. In the class the instructor stated that there
were diferent versions of the framework in production for different operating
systems besides windows. My question is, did this guy have a clue what he
was talking about? I still can not find anything anywhere about any other
versions in production. I work in a place that has a big iseries backend for
a lot of it's data and it would be nice to be able to make an application
that doesn't have to jump all over the network to get the data. I would also
like to be able to deploy a web app written in .Net on the iseries HTTP
server. If anyone knows anything about any of this or where to get info
please let me know.

Thanks,
Brian

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP - 29 Dec 2004 16:35 GMT

He was correct for the vision. Currently, it is not on all platforms, however.

1. For Windows, of course, you have the .NET Framework download from
Microsoft.

2. For Windows and FreeBSD there is a shared source CLI called rotor, which
can also be downloaded from Microsoft and compiled. This version is
theoretically possible to run on Mac, which is BSD based, although I know of
no-one who has gone through the motions. I would not run this on Windows
myself, unless you want to compile your own .NET.

3. For Linux and, apparently, Mac, there is DotGnu (http://www.dotgnu.org/).
You can see the Mac screenshots on this site, along with status on the
libraries.

4. Also for Linux is the Mono project (http://www.mono-project.com/). Mono
is already working on the 2.0 implementation of the .NET Framework.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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> Hello,
> A couple of years ago when the whole .NET thing was new I attended a
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> Thanks,
> Brian

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Brian - 29 Dec 2004 17:09 GMT

Any idea about an as/400 (iseries) version?

> He was correct for the vision. Currently, it is not on all platforms, however.
>
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> > Thanks,
> > Brian

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