Kenneth,
I have no problem answering your questions. Honesty is a core belief at
Help/Systems. And I understand the concerns of your user base. We've used
the TN5250J product and find it is a very nice tool. It is well written and
very stable. In fact, many of my developers (me included) use it rather
than IBM's Client Access.
As you are aware, Help/Systems' products focus on operations automation for
the iSeries and attached servers (a.k.a. systems management) from an
iSeries perspective. Our customers generally use an iSeries system to run
their business. We would like to include TN5250J with our Java GUIs as an
ease of use feature for our customers. Providing our customers with TN5250J
would give them the ability to start a telnet session to one of their
iSeries systems from our GUI without requiring another application to be
installed on their PC. We might disable some of the more advanced features
that TN5250J supports, just to keep it as simple as possible for our
customers. We put a heavy focus on simplicity and ease of use within our
products.
Does that sufficiently answer the questions?
I appreciate your consideration.
Regards,
Matt Bresnan
Software Development Manager
Help/Systems, Inc.
Kenneth Pouncey
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Matt
If you are on the list now here was a personal e-mail sent to me from one
of the people. I ony copied pasted a part of the e-mail as there was some
personal info and do not want to get him/her in trouble.
Could you maybe give some answers to the questions.
I want to open this conversation up and let everyone decide.
Sorry to put you in this but all the others that I have done this too has
backed down answering the questions in a public format. You guys have been
the most up front and honest so far which is why I have even considered it.
Regards
Kenneth
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Kenneth - -
Wow!! No kidding!! Help/Systems!! MOST INTERESTING (yes I am
shouting).
Since I am only a user, not a developer on this project, my 2 cents is
from a different perspective. My concerns are the life of the product.
As you know and I have said repeatedly - tn5250j rocks! Its great!
I want it to survive as an oss product. I would understand if the
developers needed to generate a cash flow, as sad as that would make me.
Do you know what Help/Systems is up to? Are they planning on putting
out the 5250 emulation and trying to charge for it? Do they want to use
it as an oss product?
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