.net on MAC! Who will buy?!?!

[AlexCode]

Actually its more than that... or not... maybe a bit scary

The thing came from a company called STRYON http://www.halcyonsoft.com and its called iNET.
It converts IL into JAVA... so, any OS where theres a JVM, a .net program will run... For more details see the web page...

Just note:
iNET R&D Enterprise License: used for all internal conversion and testing - $20,000
iNET Runtime License: must be included with each Java runtime version of application converted using iNET - $5,000 per CPU
iNET Support and Maintenance: 24/7 support, all software upgrades. Includes all upgrades required to keep up-to-date with changes made to the .NET framework - $20,000 annually.

Enjoy!
Alex

 

[Denaes]

I wouldnt purchase any software at that price.

For that much money I could take a few weeks off of work and learn enough Java to do it myself.

Thats not really .Net on Mac, but a conversion/emulation (seems like it would be conversion, but since you need a liscense per CPU to run apps, it must be JIT converting it - pretty much emulation)

Id pay money for a .Net Mac IDE and framework. Right now .Net is the only thing keeping me primarily on a PC now that OS X is around.

Now you think with that much knowledge of the .Net framework and the Java framework, they could put together a really RAD IDE for Java like the VS IDE (and its other clones).

I think Id touch java with a decent IDE. In school it was pretty much an overblown text editor.

 

[AlexCode]

I havent worked with JAVA until last weekend...
I got JBuilder 9 and started coding something... nothing fancy, just a few "Frames" with some "Widgets" (or something like that...)

My first problem was the "Naming convertion!" as Frames were actually Forms in .net and the Widgets were actually simply Controls in .net...

After that, the resemblace the C# have with JAVA gave me some ahead start...

When then I found a company selling a converter, that I also believe its an emulator, for this amazingly stupid price something came to my head...

Why dont Microsoft itself develop more Frameworks for all SOs?
Are they afraid? Of what?

So Im posting a poll on this matter...to see what you guys think/know about this!

Best regards,
Alex

 

[GMMorris]

MS dont want to support development for Unix, Linux and Mac. Hence they arent making multi-platform binaries.