Thanks Seref, you worded my concern perfectly :)
FB
> Ok, at this point, i would like to add a comment about Mono,
> which has been on my mind for a while. (I would also like to
> confess that i have never bothered to check this one out, but
> I'll be doing it just after i write this mail) Writing once
> and running on multiple platforms is not the hardest thing,
> but providing an enterprise infrastructure on those platform
> is the hard part. Let's assume that we can compile an app on
> windows and run it on linux with mono. That's fine, but it is
> not usefull for me unless the application can use an
> application server. Scalability is a major concern for me (we
> are in the hospital information systems arena), and java
> gives me a lot of application servers to provide this.
> I have always thought that the major problem with .NET is how
> it's enterprise features are bound to native services (Com+).
> Without such an infrastructure, how can you compete in the
> enterprise app domain in a cross platform scenario?
> Does mono have a way of providing .NET enterprise services?
> If not, than i can't use it even if i wanted to. Please just
> forget all other points(Novell compared to Sun or MS etc..)
> and think about this.
> This is the main argument that makes me unable to defend
> .NET against java in my company, since providing an
> enterprise application with no licence cost at all is
> possible in Java,(postgresql, jboss, linux) but it's not
> possible in .NET
>
> Please, please and please know that this is not a post to
> start a flamewar, it is just a little reminder for a serious
> necessity. We are developing using .NET whenever it has it's
> advantages(for the mobile clients using ipaq etc for
> example), and I would love to see .NET being able to run on
> linux or solaris or bsd as a full platform for enterprise
> apps. But i think it is not there yet, and considering the
> size of the missing part (app server?) it will not easily get there
>
> Best Regards
>
> Seref Arikan
> Alex Smotritsky wrote:
>
> >Mono may be an answer to the java write once run anywhere advantage.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David L.
> >Penton
> >Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:28 PM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Cool open source
> >
> >Devil's Advocate:
> >
> >[If I am in a larger organization and] if I write
> services/console apps
> >in this corporate environment that run on WinNT(x) then I have an
> >excellent option/investigation of vertical scaling by using
> zLinux/Mono
> >[on mainframe hardware].
> >
> > - dave
> >
> >Frans Bouma wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>At 07:14 AM 6/1/2006, Frans Bouma wrote (in part)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Mono is nice, but ... I can't understand how people want
> to develop
> >>>>on/for mono other than 'it's cool'.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>So that the work we do can be deployed on either Linux or Windows?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>If that's a requirement, why not use Java? Seriously:
> >>first look at the job, then pick the right tool which fits the job.
> >>
> >>It's not as if Java lacks any tooling or functionality or anything.
> >>
> >>Ok, if you have a cool .NET app, it's of course not an
> option to use
> >>Java, but why then use Linux to run it on?
> >>
> >> FB
> >>
> >>
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